Teacher Training & School Improvement

Teacher Training & School equipment

Improving the lives of the children through better nutrition is the main focus of the project. However there are other ways we help to improve the lives of the children.

  • Better trained teachers greatly improve the development and learning at the schools. We provide bursaries for trainee pre-school teachers to receive a professional three year teaching diploma. Each year we provide some 20 bursaries. This training involves a week training, at a residential college in Oudtshoorn, each month. Once students have completed the three year course, they are fully qualified pre-school teachers who can work at any school in the country. Lesle Odendaal manages this project.
  • Providing book boxes on a rotational basis, a bit like a traveling library, encourages children and teachers to read. Books in isiXhosa, Afrikaans and English are provided. Jacqui Cumberlege and Cas Cumberlege are the leaders for this.
  • Education and recreational equipment is supplied as well as assistance with small emergency repairs of classrooms and play areas. Each year some 500 pencil bags are given to the children as they move from pre-school to primary school.

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