Alex social entrepreneur ‘transforms’ learners at his former school
Former KwaBhekilanga High School learner and now social entrepreneur Samuel Matumba is hoping to plug the ICT gap between township learners and their Model C counterparts through the Alex Innovation Challenge run by his Mindful Transformation organisation.
Alex social entrepreneur Samuel Matumba of Mindful Transformation, which is a social impact enterprise aimed at achieving sustainable development by providing access and implementation for transformation, is giving back to learners at his former KwaBhekilanga High School.
Matumba, who is the COO of Mindful Transformation in partnership with his wife, launched the pilot transformation programme known as the Alex Innovation Challenge.
It seeks to arm Grade 9 learners at his former school with ICT skills to ensure that they can easily navigate the world of technology and the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) once they matriculate and leave school.
The challenge rests on four pillars – entrepreneurship, animation, life readiness skills, and coding.
Matumba took 15 learners under his wing for nine months from March to December last year and grilled them on the programme’s four pillars without taking them away from traditional jobs but to innovate within those jobs to ensure they can apply the ICT skills they have learnt. These learners recently graduated and are ready and confident to face the challenges out there, Matumba told Alex News.
He also outlined his ambitions to take the programme, which is designed to equip underprivileged learners from low-income households with skills and knowledge to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, to the rest of the high schools in Alex.
Matumba is a matriculant of the Class of 2014 who said after his varsity years, he noticed the gap between township learners and their counterparts from the Model C schools. He then set up this social enterprise to try and plug that gap.
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