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South African Soulfulness with Amajobjob

Amajobjob facilitates the creation of products, value chains, relationships, business workshops and community engagement opportunities.

Amajobjob shouts out "South African Soulfulness". This social conscious message is portrayed through the creative and recycled products, which act as 'disciples', bringing hope in a country which has forgotten. What is soulfulness? Humans crave to fill their lives with good experiences and feelings.goodlife_pic

Soulfulness is not just a describing word to explain an aspect of the soul, but it is a unique experience and feeling that every human being is searching for. Whether it be within themselves, within people around them or within their surroundings. People are yearning for this experience and this feeling to become a part of them, if only they knew how to grasp it. Soulfulness isn't an understanding of mere knowledge, but it is a multi-sensory experience that takes place in accordance with every sense, every emotion and every feeling of any individual. This world is crying out for that exact feeling of soulfulness that the African people have in their DNA. Amajobjob commissions modern young designers to portray "what is good with our world". A comparison: Human potential is priceless. Our

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planet is priceless. The renewing potential in 'wasted humans' is the same, as that of 'wasted materials'. We believe that disempowered people can be renewed and that they too have the potential to be empowered until they can shift boundaries, which will lead to their greatness. 'Waste' can be converted into re-empowered products, conversation pieces that liven up people's homes and offices! Even though the South African Soulfulness is boldly expressed through our products, it seeps through the veins of every aspect of what Amajobjob is about.Branding is the essence that gets our message out there. We communicate to all South Africans that change happens when one engages oneself in 'purposeful doing'.

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Everyone is able to be a part of this! Our products are made with substance rather than the fast inflowing of cheap Asian mass production.

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Please do visit us at our creative centre (it has safe parking) at the Museum Park in Pretoria CBD.

We are part of the tourist route, between the two major museums on the corner of Bosman and Minnaar Street.

Contact:

AmaJobJob
Viv Schultz
+27 83 524 6810
OR +27 82 676 7219
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . fax: 086 554 3693

HandMade-TagWhy should we buy handmade?

 

Because handmade = made with love, care, and thought.

Buying handmade shows our children that not everything in this world needs to be mass produced. It teaches them to love and appreciate the unique and the imperfect. And it inspires them to do their own creating as well.

It encourages traditions: how many happy hours have you spent learning how to knit with your mom and grandmother? There will never be a knitting machine that can tell so many interesting stories!

It rewards creative thinking, entrepreneurship, and craftsmanship.

You are supporting the many talented people out there who are trying to get started with their business.

You feel a sense of extra worth and pleasure with each purchase knowing you have helped someone get one step closer to their dream.Supporting each other is after all the most rewarding gift we can give each other!

When you buy handmade you create a direct relationship with the artist or designer of the product.

You are giving the handmade artist a huge compliment and actually saying "I love what you are doing" which in turn keeps the artist "doing " it.

Buying handmade is win-win situation : You enrich your life with beautiful handmade goods, and you enable an artist to continue following their creative dreams.

Embraces and celebrates the diversity of regional cultures, ideas, and resources from around the world.

Supports the concept of LOCAL IS LEKKER! You are telling the gift recipient that you cared enough about them to buy something as individual as they are.

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