A Boksburg company recently joined hands with the Imperial and Motus Community Trust to transform a dilapidated building into a state-of-the-art library for learners at Leratadima Primary School in Thokoza.
Based in Bardene, AOLC On-Line is a local ICT company which was established in 2004.
According to founder and CEO Johan Keyser, the company is passionate about education and has worked with the trust for many years in providing ICT solutions to schools.
“Leratadima Primary was identified as a school in need of a new library. Our company implemented notebooks, interactive displays, encompass sound frameworks, a digital visualiser, virtual reality, as well as various educational software programmes which are CAPS aligned, social media planning and content administration as part of the project,” he explained.
Shayda Arbee, executive manager of the Imperial and Motus Community Trust, said the trust has proven its ability to recommend and implement innovation and support by using ICT in schools through partnerships such as the one with AOLC.
About the Imperial and Motus Community Trust
The trust was established in 2003 as the Imperial and Ukhamba Community Development Trust. It was the brainchild of the late Bill Lynch and Hafiz Mahomed, then CEO and CFO of Imperial Holdings.
The initial mandate was to improve mathematics and science results of learners in township schools, but it soon came to light that learners were unable to read or understand the content of these subjects because they lacked the requisite skills.
This led the trust to a change in direction and it now focuses on developing literacy and reading skills through a comprehensive literacy intervention programme aimed at all learners at its partner schools.
Most recently, the trust establishes state-of-the-art libraries with impressive speed – most in ‘no-fee’ schools south of Johannesburg.
These cutting-edge centres support over 48 000 learners daily with formal reading lessons that include access to leisure reading and research, while providing educators with a customised store of teaching resources.
These libraries are staffed by the trust’s employees, often newly matriculated youth from the local community.
