Different speakers at the prestigious Vincent Tshabalala Education Trust Awards held earlier this month appealed to the corporate and business community to come into the party in improving learning and education in the local schools.
A local company that supplies fast-moving goods in the Sadec region Petrotrade heeded that call and wasted no time. The company’s truck of goodies, filled to the brim with different kinds of school essentials, took to the streets and made thier way to Ikage Primary School.
The company donated teachers’ classroom kits, 20 whiteboards, blankets, toilet paper, hand-wash soap, 2 pallets of maise meal, 900 litres of milk for the kids to enjoy, maths educational tools, class maps and a water tank.
The company’s public relations officer Petunia Tlhakwana said the organisation strongly believes in the transformative power of education in the community.
She said they hope that the donated items will provide the learners, teachers and administration staff at Ikage Primary School with a solid foundation upon which they can build a future of academic excellence.
The school deputy principal Mmaone Lekalakala said staff and learners were extremely grateful for the ‘rare gesture from the private sector’. According to Lekalakala the school, which has more than 1 300 learners, with the majority of children coming from poor families, needs corporate support to reach where the Department of Education cannot reach.
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