Cause Profile
Consider how the education of one child can influence the future of a family, inspire the ambitions of siblings and change the course of their future children's opportunities...
We believe that this can be a reality if our investment in a child’s education is one of quality and purpose.
Our organization is geared towards bridging the divide between the current state of education for the disadvantaged and opportunities for children to achieve beyond what is currently expected. We strive to be the hand that paints a world of greater opportunities and even greater dreams for children whose worlds have been greyed by limited choices and unfortunate circumstances.
The facts are clear and worrying:
- Of South Africa’s 19 million children, 11.5 million live in poverty.
- They are three times less likely to finish school and 17 times more likely to experience hunger than the wealthiest children.
- Four of every 10 children live in households where no one has a job.
- For the poorest, seven in 10 children live in households without employment.
- 90% of South Africa's youth completed Primary school education, yet only 40% completed their secondary schooling
- Children in the poorest households are nearly 3 times less likely to complete secondary schooling than children in the richest households
South Africa's Children - A Review of Equity and Child Rights: Review by the South African Human Rights Commission and UNICEF South Africa. March 2011
Having a desk, a chair, a classroom and a teacher is simply not enough to educate. We need to ask about the quality of the education our children receive. Why are the matric results of our poor children so dismal? Why are our poor children not making it to tertiary education?
We are a small organization with big ideas. With enough passion and drive to mold the steps towards a model that will bring hope to South Africa's poor. To achieve this requires a formula of ubuntu combined with a focus on quality above quantity and patience above haste.
We have laid the foundation for our vision with our first project
Read more about our SATlings project
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