On Monday 17th of May 2010 a very excited delegation of Spotlight team members will be leaving Melbourne for Cambodia as part of the Stitch in Time program. The Stitch In Time program helps to transform communities, by empowering women and young people with the skills and equipment to earn their own incomes through sewing, become self sufficient and ultimately improve their lives and the lives of their families. This will be the third trip funded by the program which has previously travelled to Uganda and Zambia.
 
The team, comprising of Jono, Steve, Meghan and Dahlia will be visiting Siem Reap in Northern Cambodia where the program will work towards supporting the community in collaboration with the Cambodia Orphan Fund.  
 
The Spotlight team are taking 10 sewing machines, 2 overlockers, fabrics and patterns to the Siem Reap community where they will train participants at the Sinclair Centre (the local community centre) in dress making, tailoring and the basics of sewing.
 
The participants in the program will also be taught to create enviro shopping bags that Spotlight will then buy back from them to sell in Spotlight stores around the country.
 
The team will be updating with their thoughts, pics and video daily so check in to this blog for more of this exciting adventure.

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