Activities

The SAWAU offers its members a host of educational opportunities, fun events and information sessions, all aimed at improving their knowledge and skills. Competitions are held at all levels to encourage members to improve their abilities and to test their skills.

Some of the regular activities

Monthly branch meetings.
Regular regional meetings.
Annual provincial conferences.
Three annual national congresses.
Opportunities to attend the three annual ACWW international congresses.
Summer schools – the opportunity to learn new skills and make new friends.
Workshops for specific skills or crafts.

Some of the skills you will learn

Culinary.
Pastry.
Knitting.
Crochet.
Embroidery.
Handicrafts courses in other mosaics, beading, pottery, macramé etc.
Leadership development.
Function planning.
Communication.

Each of these events is arranged with great care and attention to detail, and include inspirational speakers, information sessions covering health, security and safety, children, legal and consumer issues, cultural activities, performances by famous South African artists, practical demonstrations by experts in a variety of fields and great fun!

Competitions

To provide members with a platform to showcase their talent and the opportunity to continuously improve their skills, the SAWAU offers their members competitions in all fields and on all levels – from their local branches, regional, provincial, national as well as international level.

Judging & Judges

The judging of competitions is conducted by qualified, trained judges who are experts in the relevant fields. A Manual has been compiled for judging and is available to SAWAU members at R150 each.

Feel free to download the competitions guidelines here:

Reaching Out

While SAWAU is not a charitable organisation, its members are involved in a wide array of community upliftment projects. Just some examples include:

Soup kitchens for the elderly.
Feeding programmes for school children.
Community vegetable gardens.
Clean-up operations.
Co-ordinating the building of community clinics.
Holiday camps for underprivileged children.

Making clothes for the elderly and underprivileged children.
Knitting toys, blankets and caps for children undergoing chemotherapy.
Upgrading nursery schools.
Providing bursaries for deserving children.
Providing gift bags for children and the elderly for Christmas.
Providing toiletry bags for rape crisis centres and abused children.

Newsletter

SAWAU Newsletter is exciting and inspiring, with uplifting and empowering actuality pages, as well as news pages covering the wonderfully inspiring work and achievements of the Women’s Agricultural Union (SAWAU) members, as well as the inspiring stories of women from other organisations. It is distributed digitally to members of the SAWAU and other women’s organisations around the country.

If you are interested in receiving the SAWAU Newsletter through your e-mail address, please complete the form below: