Enlighten Education Trust strives to improve the quality of education and life in the communities of the Overstrand. Enlighten Education Trust is unique in that we believe that the quality of education in general will not improve unless the problems in education are tackled from a variety of angles. For this reason Enlighten Education Trust intervenes in schools from management, curriculum, youth and social perspectives. Various projects are in place to support these initiatives. In addition to the various projects on the go, the Trust is involved in numerous activities that support their initiatives. NPO Number:  038 928 NPO PBO No 930003997 (REG IT 2621/ 2002)

Management at Enlighten is changing in 2010.

Lois Kleyn, who has been the EET Trust Manager for the past 6 years, will be taking up Project Management fulltime.

Magriet Peter, the present Funding and Financial Manager, will become the new Trust Manager.

We look forward to yet another successful year, working together as a team. Lois has during the past six years proved that with skillful leadership, enthusiasm, and compassion, anything is possible.

Enlighten received funding from the Lottery Fund for the implementation of a Persona Dolls project as part of the Life Orientation, Arts and Culture project. This programme will be delivered at 4 primary schools and 4 pre-schools next year. The focus of the project is on HIV/Aids, Life Skills, Diversity and Values training. The schools have bought into the concept already and these life-size dolls have been ordered.

A new project, funded by the Sunshine Foundation, will commence early in 2010. This hugely exciting and creative project which will be facilitated by Brainwave IT, Cape Town and managed by Enlighten, features a mobile unit, fitted with 30 workstations to be taken into 7 schools in the Overstrand. The primary focus of the project is the upgrading of Maths and Literacy skills in schools who cannot access facilities at the Enlighten centre. Preliminary work on this project has started already. Both the EET labs will work in conjunction with each other.

The reconstruction of the Enlighten Hall is complete.

The hall features a Language and Numeracy Laboratory upstairs, catering for 24 students, as well as two additional training rooms downstairs.

The change has been welcomed by all and has transformed the hall into a friendly and attractive space for training.

The Enlighten Conference, hosted at the end of October, was a great success. Most of the speakers, the delegates and Enlighten staff were delighted with the high standard of the discussions, the excellent speakers, the venue, as well as the catering. A host of ideas and practical strategies have been formulated and can now be implemented. Enlighten appreciated the presence of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) officials. A DVD, covering the entire conference, is available for sale from the Enlighten office at a cost of R150

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More than 1 500 learners and 65 teachers attended the National Science Week events at the HMO – an all-time record and due in no small measure to the work which Amati put into this.