The Tambani community project (www.tambani.co.za) based in the villages of Fholovhodwe and Muswodi-Tshisimani. These villages are located in the Limpopo Valley, about 50 km east of Musina, about 750 km north east from Potchefstroom, South Africa. The founder and chief director of the project, Dr. Ina le Roux of Johannesburg, is a retired lecturer in English and Dutch, whose Ph.D. in Religious Studies is about the worldview of the song stories (ngano) of Venda women. The tight financial and social conditions in which these rural women live persuaded Ina to start an embroidery project which currently has some 65 women members and which helps support their families. Although most women earn no more than about R300 per month, this meager income helps to keep the worst hunger away. Ina sketch scenes from the stories she recorded on pieces of black cloth, after which the members of the project embroider these scenes. The cloths are then made up at Ina's house by her assistant Alice (from of Venda) into items such as handbags and wall hangings. They are then marketed with the relevant stories. Proceeds from the sale of the articles are used to fund the project.