The partners promoted economic growth and development in the clothing industry in the Eastern Cape region by offering job training through technology transfer. They designed and offered training workshops at Eastern Cape Technikon (ECT) on photovoltaic installation and maintenance. Workshop trainees were able to install electrical connectivity at a local school.

The partners also conducted workshops on business-oriented bookkeeping, tax law and requirements for informal sector workers, clothing design and manufacture, and e-commerce to market fashion wear and merchandise. In addition, ECT fashion department students and faculty participated in two web-based fashion workshops and a distance-learning course to improve their skills in accessing the web, e-mailing and sending photographs, and writing quality descriptions of garments and artifacts for their web site. Partners established a “Fashions from the Heart” web site to display and market the students’ fashion designs online.