Contact Person: Frances Bekker

Contact Number: (+27) 082 478 3022

Email Address: nomvulasknitters@gmail.com

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When the founder of Nomvula’s, Frances Becker, was christened, the heavens opened. The rain that fell that day broke a severe drought. To honour this event, Dinah, the young Xhosa woman who worked for the Becker family, gave Frances the name Nomvula. It is a Xhosa word that means “she who brings the rain.”

In Africa, Nomvula is an auspicious name because water is almost always scarce. Grateful to be alive after surviving not only Hodgkins Disease but Breast Cancer too, Frances wanted to reach out beyond herself to others. Knitting had helped her through rough times, and she thought it could help her community too.