Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur Awards
Township Patterns CC and ASB Non-Profit Organisation, a Section 21 company, registered as Afrique du Sud, Bidonvilles (ASB), was set up by Nicole-Marie Iresch in the beginning of 1997 to create and build areas of employment for women in township communities. In 2003, her partner Christophe Labesse joined her in a full-time capacity as the finance director of ASB and general manager of Township Patterns. Both organisations were set up as a result of Nicole-Marie’s personal relationship with a group of women and the first ever sewing co-operative of women in the townships, and has since grown into an empowering social enterprise that supports around 70 women. (more…)
