Daggafontein Community Desk seeks to improve education in the community
Through the partnership, the various stakeholders seek to help tackle issues such as crime, early childhood pregnancy, and other social ills in the community.
Daggafontein Community Desk (DCD) has joined forces with Kwasa College Pre and Primary School with the support of Ward 76 Clr Mike du Toit, Springs SAPS and various community stakeholders to introduce indigenous literature within the community.
Ofentse Rakhudu, public relations and marketing at DCD, said they seek to advocate indigenous literature by encouraging children to embrace their mother tongue.
“Ensuring a wide variety of storybooks in children’s home language is vital to us. Our focus is to enrich children’s knowledge and improve educational standards.”
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The parties have partnered with Biblionef South Africa, an organisation that donates new storybooks to underprivileged children from early childhood development (ECD) until Grade 12.
“Biblionef has provided us with programmes such as story time, an hour of reading, quiet time, and other activities in which we can engage with the children.
“Collectively, we’re trying to establish a collaboration for 2023 to do library pop-ups in our community since we don’t have any structures or buildings at the moment for the children to easily access the books,” said Rakhudu.
Du Toit said education is the most important factor that affects informal settlements and has urged the parties to continue working together to make life better for the community.
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“We’re working closely with the Springs SAPS to get our children and youth onto the sports field. We think that’s a good way to fight crime and social ills in our community,” said Du Toit.
Reverend Sharron Dinnie, the founder of Kwasa College, said when she started being involved with the community, it felt like a lonely dream, but all she wanted was to help families get their children educated.
“Having support from all the stakeholders excites me. The difference that we can make in these children’s lives is inestimable,” said Dinnie.
