Cascoland Durban 2008 by Gitte Nygaard and Jair Straschnow

Umthombo drop-in centre for street children was the location Gitte Nygaard and Jair Straschnow chose to work in as part of Cascoland Durban 2008.
There are around 3000 street kids in Durban, and Umthombo is one of the organizations working for the children. Umthombo's work mainly focuses on 'after care' (bringing children back to their families) and a 'back to school program'.
Each day approximately seventy children come to the drop in centre. They get simple food three times a day, but not allowed to sleep there and have no storage space for their (very few) personal belongings.
The intention with the postbox-lockers is both to come up with a practical solution and provide the kids with a space of their own, tiny as it might be, and at the same time use the postboxes as a sign to announce the street children issue to the people of Durban.
Other projects around the centre were YelloL, a horizontal blackboard table, Red Game-table with three different games engraved on it's surface, and HowZit, sitting-hammocks/swings