PND welcomes learners to their improved community centre

PND Centre for Homework and Study in Informal Settlement (PCHS) has begun preparations to welcome students back at the centre. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 national lockdown, the centre has provided food parcels and clothing to the community.

“We’re ready to open the centre again for students in Kya Sand’s informal settlement to have a place, space and time to study and do school work, especially, on days that they do not attend school,” asserted project manager Judith Phiri.

Most of the school’s learners who live in the Pipeline informal settlement have taken to alternating the days on which the various grades attend school. This means there were days when students are home all day with no place to do school work. PCHS now provides that space for them as well as tutoring to help them catch up on school work they might be behind on due to the national lockdown.

Similar safety measures used in schools to prevent the spread of the coronavirus such as masks, daily screening, social distancing and rigorous hygiene, will be applied at the centre. Only 20 learners will be allowed at the centre at any given time and the resident Covid-19 compliance monitor Senamile Mbokazi has been tasked to ensure adherence to the Covid-19 safety regulations. The centre also looks forward to the completed infrastructure for their computer lab for learners to have access to for school purposes.

PCHS has prepared to provide:

• A place, space and time for students to study and do homework
• Tutoring
• Access to the Internet for research and study purposes
• Access to reading and study material
• A meal prepared at the centre.

“We would love if your readers could help us with donations of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and study materials such as textbooks, study guides and stationery (pens, exam pads etc.),” concluded Phiri.