Archive for January, 2010

Trustees

Allan Powell is taking over the chair from Henri Kuiper.

Angela Heslop is vice chair.

Welcome to Johan Ryk.

 Management

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.

 New Staff

Colleen Gawler – Finances and Admin

Aarnout Brombacher – Mathematics

Morne van Oodt – IT Specialist

Mabel Saul – Early Childhood Development

Theron Mque – Literacy Laboratory

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 during 2010. 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, started in February 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. 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.