Design for social good refers to the application of design knowledge and skills to solve problems to enable a better future. From a fashion perspective, design for social good could refer to the pursuit of environmental sustainability and to uplift communities. Design education, at undergraduate-level aims to encourage students to apply design knowledge to improve the world and potentially introduce research methodology. However, literature concerning pedagogical strategies for design for social good in a South African fashion design higher education context is lacking. To fill this gap, a design for social good teaching and learning project was presented to third year Fashion Diploma students at a South African fashion higher education institution. Students had to engage in a personal design for social good project which required them to teach five community members a sustainable fashion skill and record their experience. Hence, this paper embeds itself in the research question: How can design for social good be used within the context of fashion education to enable sustainable knowledge and skills in communities? To align with the research question, this paper has a two-part aim. First, to contextualise the design for social good teaching and learning project and second, to present and discuss the students’ recorded experiences of the project. This paper applied qualitative data collection. This entailed artefacts, comprising fifteen students’ written reports that documented their personal experiences about the design for social good teaching and learning project. These artefacts were analysed through content method of analysis. The findings indicate that students were able to develop design for social good projects to teach respective community members sustainable fashion skills. These included skills for clothing longevity and upcycling. Also, the findings show that students acquired research skills to conduct ethical research, present research logically and reflect on experiences. This paper aligns with the conference subtheme Design+ Sustainability and Future-Focused Design, by explicating how fashion education can nurture sustainability through teaching and learning, design for social good collaborative engagements and community building to foster critical change and future focused design. In the same light, the paper also contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning.