The Foundation held its 12th Back to School Party on the 20 October 2018. The Back to School Party is our largest annual fundraising initiative and a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our achievements of the past year. All of our achievements and successes are a result of a collaborative effort and a unified belief in […]
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Adopt-a-School Foundation joined Barberton Mines and senior officials from the Mpumalanga Department of Education for the launch of Whole School Development projects at EmjindinI Secondary School in Barberton, on 15 June 2018. The final phase of projects completed at the school includes an assembly area and extensions to the administration facility at Emjindini Secondary School.
The Foundation is very excited to share that work has been completed, with the entire construction of three whole new schools in Amajuba, KwaZulu-Natal. These schools were formerly mud schools and the Foundation was involved in the holistic implementation of Whole School Development. Work at Enhlahleni Primary School was completed in March, whilst Lembe and
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Commemorating World Mental Health Day on 10 October, The Thari Programme, a project of the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation in partnership with the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG), hosted Exam Stress Talk with the over 400 Grade 10 -12 learners at Diepsloot Combined School. The aim of the talk was to identify the signs
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Flight Centre Foundation is currently on a drive to raise funds for the construction of a library, inclusive of resources and librarian training. The largest of these campaigns is #Kili4Kids, in which over thirty volunteers will climb Kilimanjaro in March 2019 in an effort to raise both funds and awareness. Supporting the #Kili4Kids campaign is
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The Adopt-a-School Foundation has conceptualised an in-house leadership development programme which aims at developing capacity of the Foundation’s internal staff to facilitate leadership programmes in schools. The content of this programme has been formalised and accredited by the Sector Education and Training Authority. The programme pilot took place in Muldersdrift to conduct a leadership programme
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Adopt-a-School Foundation had the great honour of being one of four organisations to exhibit at the South Africa-UK Business Forum. The South Africa-UK Business Forum took place on the 28 August 2018 at the FNB Portside Centre in Cape Town. The Forum was also attended by President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa and British Prime
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Over the last six years the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), in partnership with the Adopt-a-School (AAS) Foundation, has invested over R102 million towards uplifting and supporting 30 schools throughout South Africa. Recently the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) celebrated six fruitful years of partnership with Adopt-a-School Foundation and the Department of Education at
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The Thari Programme for Women and Children hosted its second annual career expo in Diepsloot as part of its work in coordinating the stakeholder collaboration network in the Diepsloot community. The expo was held at Diepsloot Combined School and six other schools from the community benefited from attending the expo. The stakeholder forum revealed greater
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The Foundation, once again, hosted an amazing Back to School for a Day on Mandela Day on the 18 July 2018. This year, the Back to School for a Day collective went back to Tshilidzi Primary School which was also one of the first schools to be supported by Adopt-a-School Foundation. Back to School for
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Since the beginning of the year, the Foundation has implemented a wide range of social welfare programmes in our schools. These programmes include Health Sanitation and Sexual Education Programme, Audiology Support Programme, Visual Support Programmes, Moral Regeneration Programmes, ID Applications and Awareness campaigns. The Foundation has achieved tremendous results from these programmes and looks forward
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Welcome to our last quarterly newsletter for the year. We are proud and excited to share with you our recent activities and the positive impact they are making. It has been a busy quarter – from opening doors of three newly rebuilt schools, of which were formerly mud schools to launching media centres and Grade
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