2016 Project in South Africa - Tebah Educational Initiative
In May 2016 Tebah Educational Initiative extended it’s program to South Africa partnering with Naledi Foundation focusing on working with students in rural schools to achieve excellence.
Naledi Foundation strongly believe that, “Children in rural areas are more likely than urban youth to be victims of child abuse, neglect, crime and substance abuse. Thus introducing interventions focusing on rural population as diligently as other group (s) has never been this vital since almost a quarter of school-aged children in South Africa attend school and live in rural areas.”
Tebah Educational Initiative involved in a Life- Skills Training with the students in Makuya community educating them about Sex, Pregnancy, HIV/AID etc.
Students were engaged in interaction with other students to build on their self esteem and the act of speaking in public confidently. This helped the students to face the challenges and express themselves openly for assistance.
Naledi Foundation exists to realize the following objectives;
- To guide and expose students in rural areas to available career opportunities and higher institutions for which they can further their studies.
- To provide emotional, technical support and guidance to decrease the number of girls that drop out of school and increase the number of students from rural areas in enrolling at institutions of higher education.
- To encourage parents to be involved in their children’s education by equipping them with skills to be role models to their children regardless of their educational background.
- To help under-performing schools in rural areas to achieve at least at 80% pass rate annually.
- To provide financial solutions and opportunities to students in rural schools
