On 17 October, the security company arrived at the school with a number of volunteers from their various Gauteng offices to clean up the school and train the school’s security personnel in order to upgrade their skills. They were present under the Tyco Cares global initiative. Tyco is the mother-body of ADT.
“We are trying to improve the lives of pupils and teachers on a day-to-day basis,” said Humphrey.
“We’ve put [in] plumbing, repaired all the lighting in the classrooms and we’ve supplied plastic chairs to the school.”
Prudence Motshabi, deputy principal at the school, expressed gratitude to the 40 volunteers. She said parents and pupils also showed support on the day.
“We are planning to create an award to give to a pupil at the end of the year in honour of the company,” she said.
Grade 12 pupil and president of the school representative council, Kabelo Seema said, “We are here to help our school in order to have a clean environment, free from illnesses.”
“We are proud of the pupils and parents who came in their numbers to show support and to work hard cleaning up.”
Veronica Khoza, mother to Grade 8 pupil Evidence Khoza, could not wait to share all she and her daughter had done. “We really cleaned up. We filled three refuse bags in a short span of time,” she said proudly.
Humphrey said ADT would continue to support the school in whatever way they could as their relationship was a sustainable and fruitful one.
