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MULAS SWOP SHOP RECYCLING PROJECT
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=Quinette Goosen (left) project coordinator of the Mulas Swop Shop and Glenise Howard showing the points and items available that can be earned through bringing recycled items to the Mulas Swop Shop in Dower Street.
HEILIE COMBRINCK
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elping people to help themselves is teaching them the value of effort and how rewarding it is being innovative with the aim of enriching your circumstances. Mulas Swop Shop, is a local recycling project which was launched last week, encouraging children to collect recyclable items in their community and “swopping” them for much needed items. “I do believe that this can be a life-changing project. It is a value-for-value concept instead
=Angenelo Witbooi (left) and Denton Saffier were two of the first children to support the Mulas Swop Shop. Here they are weighing plastic bottles to determine the points they have earned.
of the outmoded hand-out approach,” said Quinette Goosen, project co-ordinator of the Uitenhage recycling Mulas Swop Shop project. The project is based along the lines of the renowned and awarded JBay Recycling Project which is co-ordinated by Tanja Lategan and in turn was schooled on the idea of the Swap Shop in Hermanus, established by Marilyn van der Velde. “Children are encouraged to collect, sort and deliver recyclable materials to a central point where they are weighed and exchanged for points. They then can swop the points in an on-site shop for toiletries, food, clothing,
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=Mulas Swop Shop volunteers (from left) John Howard and Olive Grimsel with Quinette Goosen showing the bag of bottles that have alreaqdy been weighedin at Mulas Swop Shop. PHOTOS: HEILIE COMBRINCK
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