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Situated in the Western Cape in the idyllic town of Knysna the Knysna Education Trust (T275/93) was founded in 1993 and registered as a Non-Profit organisation (NPO No: 004-286) in 2002.
Our main focus is uplifting the standard of education of children in disadvantaged ECD facilities in the Knysna Municipal District.
We assist 26 ECD facilities, 20 of whom have signed partnership agreements with the Trust, 2 are pending, and 5 Child Welfare ECD facilities.
Assistance to the ECD facilities is offered in the following ways:
- Upgrading of schools in its entirety, including playground equipment to comply with minimum standards as required by the Departments of Social Services and Health.
- The "adopt a child's education" campaign which pays partial schools fees for an individual/group of children at a particular school
who would otherwise be unable to attend such a facility.
Skills development:
through capacity building workshops, employees and volunteers at ECD facilities receive the opportunity to strengthen their skills to
improve their roles within such facilities.
This includes:
- Teachers training(Level 1, 4 & 5) and ensuring that the skills learnt are correctly implemented in the classrooms
- Save our Schools individual / group donors donating money to a particular school for general maintenance and repairs, transport of children and carers on educational outings.
- Feeding schemes :
sourcing sponsorship for feeding schemes to supplement or establish nutritional meals at ECD facilities for the children.
- Networking
with other organisations to make optimum use of the resources already available.
- Establishing vegetable gardens at all the ECD facilities
Our dedicated team oversees these projects and in every day dealings with the teachers, principals and children, skills transfer and basic life-skills are shared.
Being a non-profit organisation we are solely reliant on external funding, and fundraising plays the most important aspect of our being.
Without the help of kind people, volunteers and networking to assist us, we would not be able to do the little we do in our community.
Together we can make a difference.
A huge thank you to the organisations, businesses and individuals who have contributed, in making our work worthwhile and made a difference.
VISION
To enable children from disadvantaged communities to obtain a sound integrated education thereby empowering them to take their rightful place in building and benefiting from a prosperous Southern Cape of the future
MISSION
Recognising that education is the foundation of nation building, the Southern Cape Educational Trust, operating as The Knysna Education Trust aims to facilitate a progressive upgrading of the overall standard of education in the Southern Cape.
Due to past inequalities in the education system, local pupils have missed out on quality education. The mission of the Trust is to bridge the gap by providing extra-mural training, classes, workshops and seminars to empower disadvantaged communities in a co-operative and consultative manner, irrespective of race, age, gender or creed.
The Trust aims to network with and supplement existing educational upliftment programs in the region, optimizing the use of existing structures, resources and personnel.
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CONTACT DETAILS
Phone/Fax: +27 44 3824638
Email:
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Physical Address: 6 Queen Street, Knysna
Postal Address: P. O. Box 3579, Knysna, 6570, South Africa
BANKING DETAILS
The Knysna Education Trust
Account Number: 1089 006829
Branch: Nedbank Knysna, South Africa
Branch Code: 108914
Swift Code: NEDSZA JJ
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