Schools across South Africa have been challenged once again to take part in this year’s Schools SleepOut™ in an effort to gain empathy for vulnerable communities or schools.
This is an opportunity for various schools in the country to be part of the biggest philanthropic event in the country. The call for schools to participate is encouraging. To date, 12 schools have signed up on the CEO SleepOut™ website.
The event is now in its second year and schools across the country can rise to the challenge and demonstrate their commitment by sleeping out on Thursday, 28 July.
Pupils, teachers and parents from schools such Alpha Primary School, Pridwin, St Peter’s School Mbombela, Alpha and Omega Christian Academy, Beaulieu College (division of Kyalami schools), Beaulieu Preparatory, Eunice Girls School, Maureensa, Shangri-La Academy, Kingsmead College, Pretoria Chinese School and St Andrews School for Girls have all responded to the call aimed at experiencing empathy, understanding and compassion.
The 2016 Schools SleepOut™ challenges more pupils, teachers and parents at public and private schools to sleep out to support a worthy cause of their own. Visit www.theceosleepoutza.co.za.
To help raise awareness of the School SleepOut™ Jesse Sim a pupil at Redham House Bedfordview, Mpho Motjuwadi from Crawford College Lonehill and Shane Bassin from King David Linksfield are among the 22 pupils and students that have been respectively selected as some of the project’s brand ambassadors.
As part of the initiative, participants in the School SleepOut™ must identify an outreach school in need, learn about the items they need most – from food and books to clothes and stationery – and commit to gathering and delivering those items, making a difference to those in need.
Liberty embraces the opportunity to support The Sun International School SleepOut™ because it raises awareness of the thousands of children who are homeless and vulnerable, compelled to sleep on the streets of South Africa.
In addition to rallying the call to schools to register for The School SleepOut™ Liberty has also partnered with Kingsmead College to host six Johannesburg-based schools in a joint School SleepOutTM.
Liberty will be providing logistical support on the night in the form of medical standby facilities, catering and items that make up a ‘SleepOut kit’.
Everything loaned to the pupils and teachers sleeping out on the grounds of Kingsmead on the night will be donated, after the event, to a beneficiary that supports homeless South Africans. You can be part of this initiative by logging on to www.theceosleepoutza.co.za
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