Adopt-a-School Foundation continues to erect computer labs and media centres and facilitate the donation of devices to marginalised schools. In May, Adopt-a-School showcased one of its digital projects at Hlahlindlela Secondary School in the rural community of Kwa...
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Thari Programme School Health Week awareness campaign in collaboration with Botshabelo Moral Regeneration Forum
On 12 May 2021 and 13 May 2021, the Botshabelo Moral Regeneration Forum held a School Health Week awareness campaign at four high schools. The campaign was held for Grade 8 learners to address risk behaviours like early sexual relations, smoking substances, drinking...
RETURN ON INVESTMENT FOR BURSARIES CALLS FOR HOLISTIC SUPPORT
23 April 2021 By Chantelle Oosthuizen, Executive Director, Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust Many students are supported in their tertiary studies through bursaries provided by private companies. However, university retention and pass rates in South Africa are low. A...
SMEs to benefit from Black Umbrellas partnership with CSIR
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Black Umbrellas, has partnered with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to provide technical and technological support to small Black-owned businesses in South Africa. The partnership aims to provide...
Adopt-a-School strengthens donor relations
On 30 March Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Adopt-a-School, hosted a Donor Engagement Webinar with its partners to discuss the impact that Covid-19 has had on schools; on Adopt-a-School programmes; its donors; and CSI in general. The aim of the webinar was...
KST at a Glance
19 April 2021 WHAT IS KST? KST is a non-profit organisation established to implement a district-wide whole school development programme in partnership with the Free State Department of Education. It was set up in 2013 by the Shanduka Foundation (now the Cyril...
ChairClub and Adopt-a-School donate 100 school chairs
Adopt-a-School in partnership with Chair Club, an office chair manufacturing company, recently visited Diepsloot Combined School to donate 100 chairs for foundation-phase classes. ChairClub managing director, Travers Hathrill, said one of the biggest demands in South...
Bursary Return On Investment calls for holistic offerings
“Returns on Investment for bursary support must address the high drop-out rate of first years through offerings of holistic student support, including psychosocial support and mentorship.” So said Executive Director of the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET),...
Partner with Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation to help bridge the digital divide
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation calls on business to partner with it and its partner entities to provide learners, teachers, students and entrepreneurs in its programmes with the necessary tools to function online. Contact info@cyrilramaphosa.org
Holistic schools development mitigates COVID-19 impacts
16 March 2021 By Steven Lebere, Chief Executive Officer of Adopt-a-School Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact in 2020 on South Africa’s schooling system. Schools had to be closed, from the end of March to June, and teaching and learning time was...
Whole School Development helps 100% pass in science
The Foundation congratulates Eketsang Secondary School educator, Ms Patricia Kamusoko, on achieving a 100% pass rate by her learners in physical science in the 2020 matric examinations. The result surpasses even the high pass rates achieved in 2018 and 2019. Eketsang...
Proof of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s R402 million investment is in the pudding
Since its inception in 2004 and to date, the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation has committed R402 million and raised R1.2 billion for education and small business development through its partner entities. Over a million learners, students and emerging entrepreneurs have...
An inclusive, empowered society: Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation is working to get it right
As South Africa closes out a difficult 2020, the struggle of the year is clearly evident with the unemployment rate hitting a record 30.8 percent, millions of families battling food insecurity and learners who had no access to digital education resources during...
KST’s extra classrooms improves school’s Covid-19 safety
Towards the end of 2020, KST Fezile Dabi District Manager, Nathan Pillay, officially handed over a block of four classrooms to the Sandersville Combined School’s SGB. The principal of the school, Ms Ruiters, extended her “heartfelt gratitude’ on behalf of the school...
Black Umbrellas inspires self-belief
Nzalo Careers provides coaching services to young school leavers on options for future education and personal development. It’s founder, Sedzani Netshitenze, born and schooled in Limpopo, struggled to find such support for herself. She describes herself as an...
Buy One, Give One
Chair Club recently handed over 100 school chairs to Bathabile Primary School in Olievenhoutbosch, Centurion as part of the Buy One, Give One campaign. Earlier this year, Chair Club partnered with Adopt-a-School to support disadvantaged schools in rural and urban...
CRET graduates soaring high
Through a partnership with The Academy of Aviation, Foundation entity Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) supported 11 students to undertake a SAQA-accredited course in Tourism and Aviation. Ten of the students have since graduated and have received their Civil...
KST improves pupil performance says Free State
In an advertorial published in the City Press on 22 November, the Head of Department of the Free State Department of Education, Advocate Tsoarelo Malakoane, says the key highlights of KST’s interventions in the province “are the transfer of effective teaching skills...
Impact Through Partnership Webinar: Dr Tshepo Motsepe Keynote Address
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dr Tshepo Motsepe Impact Through Partnership Webinar 22 October 2020 Our economy was already challenged before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is now even more severely so. Our growth, revenue and employment prospects are bleak. As a result,...
Impact Through Partnership Webinar: Mmabatho Maboya Opening and Welcome Address
Impact Through Partnership – Impact Report webinar launch Opening and Welcome Address Mmabatho Maboya 22 October 2020 Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning Welcome to the launch of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s 15-year Impact Report. We are pleased to have you here...
Impact Through Partnership
#ImpactThroughPartnership is the cornerstone to building development models that have meaningful long-term impact for an inclusive, empowered society. Listen to scholars, students and entrepreneurs on how the Foundation’s partner entity programs have positively...
Calling all 51% or more black-owned SMEs in the steel sector to join the Usizo Programme
Black Umbrellas in partnership with Macsteel is calling all 51% or more black-owned SMEs in the steel sector to join the Usizo Programme and take advantage of the opportunities it presents. Call 08618749628 or email usizo@blackumbrellas.org to join.
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation showcases the impact of partnerships in creating social change
For any development endeavour, there is always a need for accountability, and, in most cases, this comes in form of an answer to the question, “Did this make a difference?” For Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, the answer to that question is held in its 15-year Impact...
Impact Through Partnership
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation launches its 15-year Impact Report today. As part of our celebrations last year Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation commissioned a research report on the impact of our work over the last 15 years. Today, the Foundation held a webinar to launch the...
ADOPT-A-SCHOOL DONATIONS
On 20 October, Adopt-a-School donated Personal Protective Equipment as well as sanitary pads and personal care items for both male and female learners at Ingweni Phaphama Primary School near Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal. The donation was part of a Health, Sanitation and...
KST ICT webinar unpacks better tools for digital teaching and learning
On Tuesday, 20 October, KST, a partner entity of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, hosted a webinar on tools for digital teaching and learning. This is one of a series that KST intends to host on topics aligned to the District Whole School Development (DWSD) model’s...
SANBS, Black Umbrellas & CGC – Sponsored Enterprise Development Program
The SANBS in collaboration with Black Umbrellas and CGC Consulting is inviting qualifying 51% black women-owned businesses to join a Sponsored Enterprise Development Programme. Remember to apply directly on the BU application portal here:...
KST Mentors support Free State learners
Grade 12 learners from KST-supported schools in the Motheo and Fezile Dabi districts in the Free State are being assisted with catch-up and revision sessions provided by KST mentors. Using a blended approach of physical and remote support, the mentors undertake...
School-Days Programme Raises Funds for Education
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Adopt-a-School, is one of the School-Days programme beneficiaries. The School-Days programme enables funds to be simply raised for education by shopping at School-Days Earn Partners. You can choose to support your school,...
Re-building the economy through small business development
In response to the severe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on small businesses, Black Umbrellas, a Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, has developed a sustainability programme to “resuscitate, stabilise and sustain” SMEs during and after the pandemic. In the...
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