Welcome to our first newsletter for the year. 2020 is proving to be an unsettling year ahead with our country facing the global pandemic, COVID-19. We trust you are safe and will enjoy reading our latest achievements from the last quarter. This includes the remarkable performance of our 2019 Matric Class, National Teachers Awards, Kanana …
In August, Adopt-a-School Foundation celebrated 10 years of Whole School Development at Olifantsvlei Primary School with the Shanduka Group and staff. Deputy Minister of Education, Enver Surty attended the occasion which recognised the transformation of this former farm school into a fully resourced school catering for the Eikenhof communities in the South of Johannesburg. Shanduka …
Welcome to the last Adopt-a-School Foundation newsletter for 2015. It has been an eventful year for Adopt-a-School and we hope you have enjoyed sharing our journey with us. As we start to wind down and complete our current projects, our thoughts and best wishes are with all of our learners writing their end of year …
Message from the Executive Director: November 2015 Read More »
Another exciting few months have passed and I’m delighted to share some of our latest news with you. We held our annual Back to School for a Day for Mandela Day in the month of July. Over 40 companies and their staff went above and beyond the 67 minutes in honour of Madiba by dedicating …
Welcome Adopt-a-School Foundation has hit the ground running in 2015. Following the release of the matric results on 5th January, we began a detailed assessment of the performance of all of our adopted schools which, on average, achieved a 77% pass rate in 2014. This was a 5% decline from the average pass rate achieved …
Message from the Executive Director: February 2015 Read More »
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 …
McDonalds donates R100 000 to Adopt-a-School Foundation Read More »
The iSchool Africa Youth Press Team at Thuthuzekani Primary School has won the Flora TV Award and had the opportunity to showcase their media skills by interviewing local celebrities at South Africa Fashion Week this year. The iSchool Africa programme, which Shanduka Foundation has sponsored in six adopted primary schools, provides learners with the platform …
Thuthuzekani Youth Press Team hits the red carpet at SA Fashion Week Read More »
Stephen Lebere, Executive Director of Adopt-a-School Foundation and Mark Frankel, CEO of Shanduka Black Umbrella’s toast to Shanduka Foundation on their 10 year anniversary. Shanduka Foundation has invested over R167 million in education and small business development over the past 10 years, directly impacting on the lives of over 740 500 individuals.
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, …
ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded international oil and gas company in the world, has recently joined the Foundation’s family of adopters. The company has adopted Ntshidi Primary School in the Mzimela village in rural KwaZulu-Natal. On 23 October, we visited the school with Russ Berkoben, the President of ExxonMobil South Africa and his team to …
On 2 October, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), Adopt-a-School Foundation and the Gauteng Department of Education handed over a new science laboratory to Moses Maren Mission Technical Secondary School. This event represented the official handover of all the infrastructure projects completed to date. In phase 2 of this adoption, 12 facilities have been successfully built …
IDC hands over new infrastructure to adopted schools Read More »
Welcome to our final newsletter for 2014. This year has certainly flown by and it is a good time to pause and reflect on our achievements and share the stories from the classrooms of our adopted schools. The Foundation winds down each year with a big celebration and fundraising event –the Back to School Party. …
Message from the Executive Director: November 2014 Read More »
