10 Feb 2020

Introducing Tsalano "Help a School" Initiative Campaign

Help a School is an outreach initiative started by Tsalano to drum up support for schools located in our Townships and Villages.

Having gone through the government schools ourselves and seeing the dire situation the schools operate under currently prompted us to want to play our small part.
We tried to understand the problem further by conducting interviews with schools and by way of observation. Our conclusion based on evidence and research was that Township and Village schools are far behind in comparison with their counterparts i.e. schools in suburbia and have a lot of resource challenges.

We found that there is lack of proper teaching aids, science labs, computer labs, Internet connectivity, learning equipment’s, support materials as well as Sporting facilities to name but a few.
Because these schools are attended mainly by the poor of the poor, learners are mostly exempted from paying school fees due non affordability by their parents or guardians.
Majority of these learners cannot even afford school uniforms and do not have access to proper nutrition at home apart from what they are getting at schools through Government feeding schemes. Now this leaves operational challenges of how to run the school with lack of resources and finance.

How Does The Initiative Work

We observed that schools in suburbs have presence in the digital space for example they have websites etc. This is what makes it easier for companies that need to sponsor school projects through their CSI programmes to locate these schools with ease. The purpose of Tsalano “Help a School Outreach Initiative” is to afford our schools an opportunity to be on par with suburb schools through the use of technology also known as 4IR.

The Township and Village schools will now be able to outline their challenges and needs through our various digital channels which will be linked to corporates, NGO's, members of the communities where they are located. This would allow any of those stakeholders to pledge whatever the school is in need of i.e. donation of funds, contributing skills, labour or facilities and equipment’s such as desks, computers or help in any form directly to the school.

Through the use of technology we strongly believe the platform would afford those who are willing to make a difference make it in a seamless way. Our contribution to this problem would be a small part of connecting people and improving lives through technology.

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