Educate South Africa, a non-profit organization on the West Rand, lauched its school stability campaign at the Westonaria Banquet Hall on 6 March.
This was to interact with pupils and teachers from local schools, discuss problematic issues in schools and propose solutions.
According to Founder and CEO of Educate SA, Thato Sethe, this is just one of their many initiatives where they aim to focus on issues that hamper the education process.
“We often hear about instability in schools and in all honesty, it is worrying.
“I am talking about teachers having sexual relations with pupils, teachers and pupils bunking classes and so forth.
“These are problems that need to be dealt with,” says Sethe.
Meanwhile the founder of Educate SA Jackie Shabangu says that their initiative is to also assist the Department of Education in ensuring that the learning environment is conducive to teaching at all times.
“We are doing this because not only are we passionate about education but because we understand the dynamics in schools as we ourselves were at school not so long ago.
“In order to combat such challenges, we have decided to work with the Department of Education and the South African Human Rights Commision.
“We hope that through this partnership, we will be able to impart to our communities that the right to education comes with certain responsibilities,” says Shabangu.
