The beginning of a school year is always exciting and daunting for many learners because it presents a new class, new teachers, bigger responsibilities and a new learning opportunity. To many learners, a brand new pair of school shoes is part of the excitement that comes with starting another year of learning. However, in communities […]
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Another exciting few months have passed and I’m delighted to share some of our latest news with you. On 24 June 2016, Adopt-a-School Foundation held its first ever fundraising gala dinner in Durban. The event, sponsored by Sibaya Community Trust and hosted by our Chairman Cyril Ramaphosa, raised over R5 million for 2016 and a
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EduWeek is the largest and most recognised African education event and was held from 29 – 30 June at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg. This year’s theme was “Education for Sustainable Development”. We were proud to have Banyana Mohajane, our Head of Department: Social and Skills Development address the conference on Early Childhood Development needs
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For the second year running, Adopt-a-School Foundation has partnered with Cell C’s Take a Girl Child to Work Day initiative to pair participating corporates with schools from our database. On 28 May over 800 girls from 38 schools are benefitting from this initiative, which is in its 10th year. A further 11 girls from adopted schools in
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McDonalds SA and Visa have donated R100 000 of the proceeds of the Mzanzi Millions Monopoly game held for the first time in South Africa. This is a competition for consumers to win their share of 1.6 million prizes and when the competition closed, the unclaimed prizes were sold to raise funds for different charity
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Adopt-a-School Foundation is transforming three mud schools in KwaZulu-Natal as part of the Department of Basic Education’s Accelerated School Infrastructure Development Initiative. Infrastructure is underway in two schools and the interventions for the third school are in design phase. This project began in May 2014 and the Foundation is currently building classrooms, two multimedia centres,
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Adopt-a-School Foundation officially handed over a newly built Grade R facility at Mbonisweni Primary School in Hambanati, Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal on 9 Feburary 2013. The facilitiy was donated by Shanduka Group. Shanduka Group adopted the school through its Adopt-a-School Foundation, which mobilises companies and individuals to invest in schools in need. Nearly 170 schools are currently under the
