Page 19 - Adopt-a-School Foundation 2016-2017 Annual Report

Community Development Projects
In 2016/2017 Adopt-a-School invested in
several community development projects.
These are projects that extend beyond the
scope of Whole School Development and
use our community-centric infrastructure
model.

Since 2010, this centre housed 30 young
learners with severe disabilities in what was
little more than a wooden shack. Barberton
Mines approached Adopt-a-School
Foundation to assist them in upgrading
the facility into a long-lasting, sustainable
structure that could better serve the needs
of this vulnerable community. The result
is a state-of-the-art Centre that includes
classrooms, dormitories, ablution facilities,
a dispensary, kitchen and dining facilities, Learners conducting
offices and two flats for on-site staff. experiments in Siwali
Secondary School fully
The Department of Basic Education’s schools resourced science laboratory
act states that all schools must be inclusive
of children with special needs. Adopt-a-
School hopes to build more facilities to assist
special needs learners and ensure that they
have access to quality education.

Sixty temporary jobs were created for local
community members during this project
which also resulted in the transfer of
valuable skills such as bricklaying, paving,
plumbing and project management.

The old school administration facilities

Bottom middle: The new school administration facilities

Bottom right: Steven Lebere, Executive Director of
Adopt-a-School Foundation, Varkeychan Joseph, District
Director of the DBE , and Tebolog Molefe, Head of CSI at
the IDC at the launch of the new administration block

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