Adopt a School

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Friday Flik

For most of us, a trip to the local mall enables us to watch the latest movie on circuit, or take a trip to the DVD store. For others, most have never been to a movie house or seen a movie. Find out more

Enduro Africa

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SAPPHIRE ROAD SCHOOL EXPRESSES GRATITUDE

2011-11-10

Let me take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation for your wonderful kind donation towards the feeding scheme at the school as well as providing food parcels to 75 volunteers each month.

The department of education provides funding of R1, 90 per child per day for the feeding of the school. With this funding we were only able to give the entire school a quarter of the ration that they were supposed to get. The need is so huge in our community that feeding plays a big part in supporting the learning process. Many of the kids, faced with enormous physical and emotional challenges, that include nutrition, come to school because they know they can expect a plate of food.

With your wonderful donation we are now able to give a full plate of food and also expand the variety of the menu to the 1075 children that we feed. The plate of food is the highlight of many of these children.

We have 75 unemployed community members that volunteer across various projects in the school. Majority of these volunteers are black women, two have disabilities and a number of black youth. They volunteer in projects, on the premises of the school, that include a clinic, vegetable gardens, group working with children and parents infected by hiv/aids, teacher assistants, toilet cleaners, general handy men and security personnel.

The food parcels that we are able to present to them at the end of each month provide a wonderful incentive to these loyal and dedicated volunteers of the project.

Your donation is therefore touching much more than the homes of our children but also impacting on the lives of our community. For this we are truly grateful.

We express our sincere gratitude and wish KFC and Touch Africa well.

Yours on social partnerships

Bruce P. Damons
Principal