Cyril Ramaphosa goes back to school
The Adopt-a-School Foundation hosted the seventh annual Back to School Party at the Sandton Convention Centre to raise funds for school development.
The event was attended by more than 1 000 guests from 100 leading South African and multinational companies.
The event follows the foundation’s first-ever fundraising dinner in London which was attended by more than 250 guests and raised more than R5.2 million for school development in South Africa. The foundation has implemented whole school development in more than 500 schools across South Africa, three in Lesotho and one in Mozambique.
The foundation mobilises companies and individuals to adopt disadvantaged schools, providing social and skills development and infrastructure support. Since inception it has built more than 320 school facilities, creating more than 4 000 temporary jobs and benefiting more than 390 small and medium-sized businesses. It has raised more than R125 million for disadvantaged schools to date.
Foundation chairman Cyril Ramaphosa said, “What started 11 years ago as a vision to enhance the education landscape for previously disadvantaged children in South Africa, has today surpassed our wildest expectations. Through the foundation’s whole school development model we are working to improve the academic, social and infrastructural environments in some of the most rural and disadvantaged schools in South Africa, Mozambique and Lesotho.”
CAP1: School’s in… Mbali Nkosi, Hlengiwe Mthembu (6) and Naledi Ralesekela (5) and chairman of the Adopt-A-School foundation, Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture Thys Dullaart
CAP2: Teacher… Hlengiwe Mthembu (6) and Naledi Ralesekela (5) and chairman of the Adopt-A-School foundation, Cyril Ramaphosa. Pictures Thys Dullaart
