working for the unemployed

Athlone -The Dream Begins

Ronald Bownes

Ronald Bownes

It all began in our home town, Hout Bay, where we were asked to Project Manage a fledgling employment creation initiative, aimed at assisting the unemployed of Imizamo Yethu and Hangberg.

What started off as a part time project, primarily marketing related, ended up as a round the clock love affair! A passion, more than a job. A roller coaster ride of meeting extraordinary people from a range of backgrounds. Sitting across the desk, interviewing single mothers with 3 hungry mouths to feed, young school leavers with amazing dreams but no financial backing, middle aged men with years of experience, but loss of self worth.

Tania Bownes

Tania Bownes

Hours of networking, “pushing” business owners, spreading the word in the community. And it ended up a runaway success, exciting government enough to fund a large scale unemployment intervention for the Cape Metropole region.

Today, DreamWorker has a vision to establish as many field workers in the Cape Metropole as possible. And “to establish DreamWorker offices in all the other major provinces. “