ADOPT-A-SCHOOL FOUNDATION
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation is an independent Public Benefit Organisation. In 2019, the Foundation celebrated 15 years of programme implementation in education and small business development. This milestone attests to the Foundation’s track record, sustainability and commitment to social change in South Africa.
The Foundation has its genesis as Shanduka Foundation, which was launched in 2004 as part of the Shanduka Group.
The Foundation changed its name in 2015 following Cyril Ramaphosa’s divestment from the Shanduka Group.
At its establishment the Foundation set out its mandate to support initiatives to improve education and grow small Black-owned businesses. It committed to spend R100 million over 10 years. By the close of the 2019/2020 year, Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation had already contributed R402 million and additionally leveraged R1.296 billion through its partner entities to programmes that support the development of education, youth, SMEs and vulnerable children and women. Well over a million learners, students and emergent entrepreneurs have participated in and benefited from the programmes of the Foundation. This was made possible through the commitment and sustained support of the Foundation’s partners and stakeholders.
Adopt-a-School implements a Whole School Development model that improves the governance, academic, infrastructural, social and security environment in schools.
Whole School Development Impact Figures
*Since inception
NEW STRUCTURES BUILT
Science laboratories built
Ablution facilities BUILT
schools renovated
jobs created
small businesses supported
educators
developed
eyesight tests
conducted
learners provided with spectacles
hearing tests
conducted
learners provided with hearing aids
Whole School Development Impact Figures
*March 2019 - February 2020
Ablution facilities BUILT
Facilities RENOVATED
JOBS CREATED
SMALL BUSINESSES SUPPORTED
EDUCATORS
DEVELOPED
EYESIGHT TESTS
CONDUCTED
SPECTACLES DONATED
2019 Matric Certificate Results
Siyabonga Cele
Top learner in Quintile 1 with 8 distinctions Bizimali Secondary School
Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal
It took discipline and prayer to make it as one of the country’s top matric achievers. My dream is to study actuarial science at Wits.
Gertrude Joalane Phirimana
Mathematics Educator
3rd place in the award for Excellence in Mathematics in GET Zamokhuhle Junior Secondary School
Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
I enjoy seeing learners display independent thinking skills, especially when they think out of the box when investigating mathematical rules and formulas.
Matric Performance
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Average pass rate
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Decline in mathematics performance
Increase in science performance
Increase in accounting performance
Increase in geography performance
0 schools
19% of adopted schools
81% of adopted schools
Under performing
Category (0-50%)
Functional Category
(51% - 79%)
Exceptional Category
(80% - 100%)
Celebrating our teachers
Adopt-a-School honoured the best performing, most sustainable and most improved schools under its adoption programme.
Best performing schools: Thandokhulu High School and Lehlasedi High School
Most sustainable school: Lodirile Secondary School. This school has consistently achieved a pass rate of between 90% and 100%
Best Physical Science Educator: Ms Patricia Kamusoko, physical science educator at Eketsang Secondary School. Her 2018 matric class achieved a 100% pass rate, with over 60 percent of learners achieving bachelor passes.
We are very proud of the dedication that they have shown to Their learners and the pride they have taken in their work. It is important for educators to not only have the talent of teaching, but the passion for the profession.
Green Building Models
Using innovative environmental design and cost-effective models, Adopt-a-School is piloting green building models.
Water-Saving
Welebasha Secondary School in KwaZulu-Natal and Siwali Secondary School in the Eastern Cape both experience severe sanitation issues due to lack of access to clean water. This pilot project involved the installation of low-flush toilets which use significantly less water than normal toilets.
Energy-Saving
Ditsepu Secondary School, Limpopo and Fortune Kunene Primary School, Gauteng, had thermainsulation and sensor lights installed as energy saving measures.
FROM MUD HUTS TO SMARTBOARDS
On 17 April 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa officiated the handover of three new primary schools in Dannhauser, Utrecht and Vryheid in the Amajuba and Zululand District municipalities, KwaZulu-Natal. The schools, Enhlanhleni, Lembe and Ingweni Phaphama, were built under the Department of Basic Education’s Accelerated School Infrastructure Delivery Initiative (ASIDI) in partnership with Adopt-A-School. The programme aims to eradicate schools that do not have water, sanitation and electricity and which were constructed with inappropriate material.
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Back to School Party
On 15 October 2019, Adopt-a-School hosted its 13th annual Back to School Party at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg, which was attended by over 700 industry leaders. The event was sponsored by Channel VAS, a leading global Fintech enterprise in mobile technology.
Adopt-a-School raised R6.3 million through pledges, exciting auction prizes and table sales. The funds raised were used to support Whole School Development programmes in disadvantaged adopted schools. For the first time, the event incorporated school awards, aimed at recognising schools that have improved and sustained good results. These schools produce at least 50% or more learners who are eligible for university entrance. Among the winners was physical science educator Ms Patricia Kamusoko from Eketsang Secondary School who achieved a 100% pass rate in 2018, with over 60% of learners achieving bachelor passes.
ANNUAL BACK TO SCHOOL PARTY
GUESTS
RAISED THROUGH PLEDGES
For the detailed 2019/2020 annual report of Adopt-a-School
www.adoptaschool.org.za
