# @anyaayoungchee on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CrnubNxODfY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63393127-anyaayoungchee-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-04-29T12:51:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** A N Y A  A Y O U N G  C H E E (@anyaayoungchee) — https://gondola.cc/anyaayoungchee

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This post has been 7 years in the making… starting with an incredible deep dive experience in 2016 at thnkschool in Amsterdam, to a fortuitous sidewalk bounce up in 2018 with my long time friend haswatt, to the launch of spool.community (finally!) on April 11th 2023 💫

With the tremendous support of our partners at IDB Lab el_bid cncockburnreptt vashtie.tt & livingwatertto we have begun training our first Spöol cohort of participants to produce for the fashion & carnival industries, with the aim to provide these women with the skills necessary to access sustainable livelihood opportunities.

This week the #UNHCR refugees TT team visited to see the work that’s being done at spool.community and we are thrilled to see the expanding possibilities that are being created for the both the migrant and refugee communities as well as our local community of at risk women here in Trinidad as a result of this integration programme. 

I am most proud of, and grateful for, the persistence and see-it-through-ness of our Spöol team, as well as all of the contributors, collaborators, partners, and believers in this initiative, that has gotten us to this stage of development. Big love and gratitude to my forever biggest believer in my dreams wyattgallery 🙏🏼Seeing kairipilargallery amongst the spools feels like magic! 

We know the road ahead is bound to be challenging, yet the rewards have already begun to manifest. 💫

Learn more about the work we are doing spool.community and visit the Spöol website at my link in bio

This is just the beginning.✨

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