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 underlying social issues affecting the community, including chronic unemployment and the dis-empowerment 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. Learners met representatives from technical training colleges, tertiary institutions, various NGOs, the SAPS, big corporate and government departments.
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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