On Friday 4th August, Adopt-a-School Foundation hosted a career expo in Diepsloot in partnership with Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation as part of its work in coordinating the stakeholder collaboration network in that community. Adopt-a-School’s work in schools often reveals greater underlying social issues affecting the community, including chronic unemployment and the disempowerment of women and children. The expo sought to address some of these issues by creating a framework that allows young women and children to lift themselves out of poverty and to become independent and empowered.
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Adopt-a-School Foundation continues to go from strength to strength
Investing over 1.2 billion rands through the support of its donors and partners, benefitting over one point six million learners through various programmes of Whole School Development. In 2001, Stella Nemkula (former Principal of Tshilidzi Primary School) contacted one of her former pupils for help; the school desperately needed a fax machine. That pupil was