On 14 July 2023, 29 staff volunteers from African Bank kicked off the Back to School for Mandela Day initiative at Fukama Primary School in Vanderbijlpark. The day included painting a newly built dining and nutrition centre by the African Bank. The project consisted of painting doors, walls and window frames, making the dining and […]
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On the 21st to 23rd of April 2023, the Foundation hosted the School Leadership Advancement Programme for Ditsepu Secondary School at the Ranch Hotel in Polokwane, funded by Stanlib. The Leadership Advancement Programme is the first step in the implementation of Whole School Development. It involves a programme that seeks to empower the School Governing
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As part of our partnership with the African Bank and Bank of China, on 23 May 2023, we visited one of our infrastructure projects at Motshegofadiwa Primary School in Hammanskraal. Through this collaboration, five brick-and-mortar classrooms were built to replace dilapidated mud classrooms constructed by community members in 1975. Thank you, African Bank and Bank
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The Foundation hosted an advocacy meeting at Lot Phalatse Primary School on the 21 June. The Advocacy meeting introduced the School Leadership Advancement Programme and the Curriculum Delivery Educator Development that will be taking place at the school funded by Sasria. The Educator Development Project will focus on numeracy and literacy for the foundation phase
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On the 9th of June, the Foundation was thrilled to launch the Health, Sanitation and Sexuality Education Project at Nageng Primary School in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni. Funded by Siqalo Foods, the project will benefit over 500 learners from grades four to seven. The launch was facilitated by Julius Kgole, a well-known actor from the TV show,
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On 17 July, the Foundation in partnership with Siqalo Foods hosted a Pre-Back to School for Mandela Day Initiative at Nageng Primary School funded by Siqalo Foods. The school is looking brand-new with painted windows, walls, ceilings and burglar bars, varnished doors, and the grounds ready for Jojo tanks to be installed in the garden
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Adopt-a-School Foundation hosted its 11th Back to School for Mandela Day initiative on 18th July at Tsakani Primary School in Krugersdorp. The day is commemorated annually in honour of Nelson Mandela’s legacy, encouraging active citizenship and corporate volunteerism. This year, Adopt-a-School Foundation championed another school shoe campaign that collected 400 pairs of school shoes alongside
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To meet the changing world and job specs of the future, in 2021, the Foundation introduced coding and robotics as part of its ICT Programme implemented in schools across the country. The coding component of the programme focus on software, while robotics programmes cover both hardware and software. Coding is written instructions that a robot
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Welcome to our first newsletter for the year. We are proud and excited to share with you all the activities from the last few months to date, encompassing our 20-year milestone celebrations and our matric results. It has been a busy time for the Foundation. We closed our 20-year celebrations at the beginning of this year, handing over school shoes to hundreds of learners. We have had multiple infrastructure handovers and have been delivering spectacles, hearing aids and ICT equipment to schools. Further, we were thrilled to host the Thari Biennial Conference for the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation and two fundraising initiatives, the Back to School Party and a fundraising dinner in London.
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On the 9th September 2022, the Foundation hosted a successful Thari Second Biennial conference at Seemahale Secondary School. Seemahale Secondary School is one of the eight participating schools in Botshabelo. The conference was hosted in partnership with the Free State Department of Basic Education and directed by Mr Moloi, Motheo District Director. The theme of
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On 29 September, the Foundation, alongside Sasria handed over an ablution facility and a four-classroom block at the Lot Phalatse Primary School at Hebron Village in Pretoria. Improving infrastructure in marginalised schools, an AASF priority, was made possible by partnering with the South African Special Risk Insurance Association, Sasria. The non-life insurer that provides special
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Handing out school shoes to learners at Qhobosheane Primary School in Soweto marked the end of the Adopt-a-School Foundation’s successful 20th anniversary. Commemorating two decades of building an inclusive society through education, we pride ourselves on implementing our Whole School Development (WSD) model, a sustainable and innovative model that supports over 600 schools across the
