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They have Designs on Anti-Human-Trafficking

They have Designs on Anti-Human-Trafficking

Date: 2019-10-04

Five first year students at Inscape, a design college situated in Essenwood, were given a fund-raising assignment as part of their leadership programme. As an institution, Inscape values being able to partner in community development and enrichment programmes.

The quintet of interior design or graphic design students had previously had contact with The Domino Foundation's Red Light programme and felt this was a worthy cause to support. The programme reaches out to, restores and releases survivors of exploitation and human-trafficking.

The five students had been profoundly challenged when they had heard of the horrors women encounter when they have been caught in the web of human-trafficking. They were determined to be part of the answer in some positive way.

Student Tess Grantham said of the Inscape lecturers, "They push us to ensure that we achieve to the very best of our abilities in all areas and we knew we needed to think creatively to meet the Red Light challenge."

So, into the kitchen the five went and whipped up a range of savoury delicacies to tempt their fellow students. They quickly realised that their peers had a far greater weakness for sweet and sticky goodies and so they set to baking batch after batch of cupcakes. The news of how delicious they were soon got out and neighbouring businesses were eager for a teatime treat as well.

The designers turned confectionary whizzes raised twice what they had initially aimed for. One of the five, Thejal Bugareth, was enthusiastic about their first venture on behalf of Red Light: "We are hoping to develop a relationship with the 'Red Light' programme by getting involved wherever we are needed." The students plan to be back with The Domino Foundation, bringing more creative thinking to help alleviate the plight of some of the Foundation's 12500 beneficiaries in its six programmes.

Red Light's Esther Madikane praised the students 'efforts. "The very current issue of gender-based violence has highlighted the ongoing nightmare victims of human-trafficking endure. These young ladies have shown great solidarity with them and with the survivors Red Light is helping."