Over the last five years the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), in partnership with the Adopt-a-School (AAS) Foundation, has invested over R88 million in upgrading and supporting 30 schools throughout South Africa. Today, at Siwali Secondary School, the partners celebrated the progress of the five adopted schools in the Eastern Cape, where they…
Top performing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been recognised at the Black Umbrellas National Development Awards in Johannesburg. Black Umbrellas (BU) established the National Enterprise Development Awards (NEDA) in recognition of the achievements of the entrepreneurs in their business incubation programme. These awards highlight the hard work and dedication required to establish and sustain…
A lot of emphasis is placed on the school readiness of learners in South Africa, with some schools assessing children’s emotional, social, physical and intellectual development to assess whether they are ready to embark on their formal school careers. This concept of school readiness brings with it a key assumption made about learners, which is…
The Communications and Stakeholder Relationships Manager of Adopt-a-School Foundation, Nicola Brown, shared the story and work of Adopt-a-School Foundation in an interview on MixFM.
‘You don’t have to be in town to be the best. You can be the best anywhere.” So says Mankodi Moitse (53), the woman who heads the Kagiso Shanduka Trust, which has helped Free State top the Class of 2016. The largely rural province achieved an 88.2% matric pass, which included progressed learners – those…
On Saturday 29 October 2016, Adopt-a-School Foundation hosted 1 000 people together under one roof, in what has become one of the biggest events on South Africa’s CSI calendar; the Back to School Party. Guests, dressed in school uniform, pledged generously towards the work of the Foundation and over R4.5 million was raised on the…
In October the Motheo district held a certification ceremony at the KST Motheo district offices where 15 Community Care Givers (CCG) were recognised for facilitating the vision screening and referral process in 10 primary schools. One of the CCGs expressed excitement at being part of the vision screening programme: “I had fun while learning about…
Together with the Free State Department of Education, KST awarded top performing schools with infrastructure on 30 September 2016. The infrastructure launch, which was hosted by Free State Education MEC Tate Makgoe, representatives of KST, and relevant stakeholders, saw nine schools receiving infrastructure – from classrooms, media centres and libraries, to Grade R classrooms. Infrastructure…
Adopt-a-School Foundation is committed to addressing the social challenges preventing learners from accessing and fully utilizing the opportunities available through basic education. In recent years, South Africa has experienced an alarming rise in teenage pregnancy, coupled with an already high level of teenage STI transmissions, HIV/Aids infection rates and female learner dropout due to issues…
The Free State Department of Health (FSDoH), a KST team and optometrist Dr Dire Thomas travelled to Motheo and Fezile Dabi districts to screen 7 980 learners in 20 primary schools under the KST programme. The majority of these learners have never had the opportunity to visit an optometrist and the impact of the vision…
