The aim of this project is to encourage self sufficiency and to provide additional training for teachers and instructors.

It encourages students to make clothes for themselves and their family, and also to provide them with a skill so they can find work.

Tailoring has been part of the curriculum at Crossroads School since it re-opened in 2007, but the project came to a halt 2 years later due to lack of funding and other problems. 

Groups from the UK set up workshops in 2007, finding new and creative ways to meet the needs of potential instructors.

Project Re-launch

Holy Trinity CE School in Broadstairs very generously donated £220 from their Lent Appeal in 2011 to fund the cost of 3 new Singer Sewing Machines for Crossroads School, which have been purchased and are at the school ready to be used.  Crossroads also have 11 machines which have been well used and these are being re-furbished in December 2011. 

Tailoring is to become part of the school curriculum again for Senior 1 students. The project starts in February 2012, the beginning of the Ugandan academic year. A teacher needs to be recruited.