Posts Tagged ‘Sunshine Foundation’

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.

Michael Javett – The Sunshine Foundation – visited in November.

Masennya Dikotla CEO of the Molteno Project in Gauteng with whom we closely collaborate visited.

Henny Sorenson from Denmark – a funder of school resources such as dictionaries, calculators, readers etc. for the classrooms – visited visited Hermanus with a friend for a week early in November. We took both ladies on a tour of the schools which they seemed to enjoy thoroughly.

Willem and Lone Grahn also from Denmark spent several days with us in October. Their son Lucas attended Hermanus Primary School for the day which he enjoyed thoroughly. Willem works fro one of our major funders.

The Art Competition was held to select art works created by students to adorn the new Education and Training Centre building. The first round of the competition was held in conjunction with the Overberg Eisteddfod. The Sunshine Foundation sponsored the materials, workshops and entry fees to allow 190 students from 15 pre-schools and schools to enter the Eisteddfod for the first time. On the 31st August open day for viewing the Eisteddfod work, 57 finalists were selected and each of the 25 participating schools were represented in this group. These finalists won R100 and went forward for the selection of the 31 works that will be framed and hung in the new building. Further prizes of R300 were be awarded. Three bursaries of R5000, R2500 and R1000 were awarded to the most promising students. 

Much excitement has been generated in all communities through this initiative and many thanks to the funder for making this possible.

Bursary Winners – Photographs by Hansie Oosthuizen

Ian Pieterse Grade 7 student at Okkie Smuts Primary (R5000),
Nkosiyethu Mike Magele Grade 10 at Qhayiya Secondary (R2500) and
Glenwill Mahoney Grade 4 at Mount Pleasant Primary (R1000).

1st Bursary

2nd Bursary

3rd Bursary

Sixteen Construction trainees registered for a ten-week site training programme at the Overberg Training Centre in Grabouw.  This was a daily programme and the first three modules are in Bricklaying, Plastering and Painting.  The two modules which follow are Plumbing and Electrical. 

Reports from the instructor in Grabouw are that the OTI trainees were disciplined, punctual and dedicated to the tasks set for them.  This has been ascribed to the initial lifeskills training which trainees underwent and OTI has been asked to provide their lifeskills programme to the Grabouw Centre for use with their own trainees.  One trainee was identified for training as a trainer and/or for site supervision. 

Trainees will be able to be used for both conventional building methods as well as light steel construction.