Our education footprint

MONITORING IMPACT FOR SUSTAINABLE RESULTS

We select the schools we work with as your Corporate Social Investment should not be a cost to company but an investment in our human capital and leave a legacy.

We interview the School Governing Body with the School Management Team to ensure that educators and School Management Team Members will commit towards the School Enrichment Programmes offered while educators will provide support to our beneficiaries. 

Learners will also be selected by Valued Citizens Initiative according to their will-power to commit to our programmes and character identified through an assessment, not their academic performance.

These pre-selection criteria allow our partners to invest on fertile soil to provide opportunities and sustainable solutions to the youth from our urban, rural and townships areas. Our programmes answer to the needs of our country: the National Development Plan 2030, the Social Compact, the National Action Plan, and the new BBBEE codes. And at international level, they contribute towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Aligned with the National Development Plan 2030  with a focus on Chapters 7, 9,  11

  • Positioning South Africa in the World as we are interconnected
  • Build a properly qualified, professional, competent and committed teaching, academic, research and public service core
  • Expand the production of highly skilled professionals and enhance the innovative capacity of the nation with entrepreneurship
  • Developing an enabling environment to protect the vulnerable, women and children for better social protection
  • Tackling the child dependency risk
  • Enhancing the Care Community Programme through strengthening the professional developmental capacity within NPO partners of DSD

Contributing towards realising the

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 1, 3 and 8:  Enhancing the emotional  wellbeing of through self-awareness and psychosocial support; nd increasing youth employability through career guidance and leadership programmes, Valued Citizens Initiative contributes towards alleviating poverty and ensuring that our youth participate in the South African economy.

SDG 4 and 10: Consolidating Quality Education through Values in the Lead programme accredited with 15 CPD Points by SACE Services focused on articulating values and wellbeing in the classroom and our soft skills programmes focused on learners contribute towards enhancing quality outcomes in education.

SDG 5 and 16: Through our professional development programmes focused on the girl child and the capacity building of Social Work Practitioners to facilitate comprehensive sexual education we contribute towards these goals. Furthermore, our Sondela Dialogues and iNSPIRE leadership programmes promote actions towards a new generation appreciating gender equality.

  • Our tools to measure success throughout the years assess the quantitative and qualitative of our programmes, and are composed of the following methods:
  • Personal, Peer and Learner’s assessment
  • Quality management forms completed by the beneficiaries after each module
  • Quarterly one-on-one interviews with a random sample of beneficiaries captured through videos
  • Behaviour analysis
  • Statistics – Pool for HR created
  • Quarterly operational reports and financial reports every semester provided to partners and stakeholders, reporting according to our theory of change and results chain.
  • Audit

THE LEGACY IN COMMUNITIES NURTURING THE WELL-BEING AND ACADEMIC RESILIENCE OF CHILDREN

In Schools, out of 8559 educators trained, 6970 have been awarded their Valued Citizens Certificates from 2674 public primary and high schools. The direct reach: 1 615 500 learners through our teachers implementing the programme in class and communities. In Communities… out of 2693 Social Service Practitioners and VEC trained in Gauteng and 2168 received their accredited certificate by the South African Council of Social Service Practitioners.

THE LEGACY: INCREASING YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY

71.5% of our youth involved in Sondela Dialogues believe that it is their duty to free themselves from poverty by focusing on their education. And quality education matters as only 38.4% of South African learners reach a Bachelor degree pass from the Matric Class of 2022 which is not good enough; particularly when we know that the system does not count learners not writing Matric.  According to Stats South Africa, 250 000 learners drop out of school every year, and furthermore it is to be noted that only 45% of learners beginning grade 1 will write heir final exams in Grade 12.

65% Alumni have completed their studies and are already contributing towards our economy in the fields of teaching like R. Ballele, accounting like S. Rakhudu, pharmacology like H. Nkhonto Dental Nurse like G. Mapule and microbiology and biotechnology like K. Ranakabae while at National level, the figures announced are 42% of Matriculants reach tertiary education and only 30% complete their studies.

THE LEGACY: RESPONSIBLE ACTIVE CITIZENRY

Sondela has enabled 2507 learners from Grade 8 to 11 from 42 high schools in KwaZulu Natal, Gauteng and Western Cape supported by 72 educators to find their voice, become aware of their power of influence through Active Citizenry within their communities.

Our Alumni, as active Valued Citizens, contribute towards inspiring younger generations in communities, schools and in the institutions where they study after Matric. They often lead students’ structures, and challenge the status quo regarding gender equality and social justice. Furthermore, 15% of our learners are now professionals’ fulfilling their career’s aspirations within the Justice system as lawyers, Advocates, etc…

Our footprint