The Love Trust The Value of 12 Years

What we care about
We care deeply that more than sixty percent of South African children are poor, and that children and women are deeply affected by unemployment, low levels of education and poverty, which is exacerbated by the socio-economic shock of the Covid pandemic.
As The Love Trust we see ourselves, alongside every citizen in this country, playing our part to enable South Africa to change this dire situation.
Our purpose
Founded in 2009, we are a South African charitable not for profit organisation (NPO) with a vision to nurture future generations of servant leaders by providing quality Christian education to vulnerable children.
To bring about change and long term sustainable social impact
We believe that …
Quality, values-based education is an instrument to give children hope and the right foundation to have a future free of poverty and a more equal society.
Trained and qualified early childhood development teachers is the critical catalyst for a child’s lifelong learning and development.
Our programmes are geared to do this by …
• Empowering Black South African women in vulnerable, rural, and informal communities as qualified early childhood development teachers, and leaders in their communities.
• Accrediting more teachers to reach more children with quality education will increase employment, improve livelihoods and reduce inequality, particularly black women in informal communities.
• Education as a key lever to reset poor and vulnerable communities ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic and its impacts.
• Bridging the digital divide by making ICT accessible to children from poor and vulnerable communities.
• Equipping families to be actively involved in their children’s learning.
• A curriculum that considers the learner holistically - academically, physically, socially, spiritually, emotionally and psychologically.
With this steadfast belief to bring about change through education, The Love Trust is determined to deliver shared value to our partners, remain resilient in achieving our growth plan and deliver measurable impact in the communities we serve.
What we do
Our two core programmes are …
• We deliver quality Christian education to primary and pre-primary school children at our Nokuphila School in Thembisa, Midrand, and
• We train black South African adult women as accredited early childhood development teachers qualified to teach Grades 000, 00 and Grade R school children.
Impact
Nokuphila School
• On average 358 children are enrolled from Grade 000 to Grade 7.
• Employ on average 60 people across professional teaching, administrative and support roles.
• Since our first Grade 7 class in 2018 we have graduated 112 Grade 7 students with values-based, holistic education to set them on the path to achieving successful secondary schooling.
• Our pass rate is 98 -100% on average.
• The learner achievement for 2021 was remarkable considering the disruptions and children did not have access to online learning in the same way their counterparts from privileged schools had:
Foundation Phase (Gr 1 - 3) of 99 %
Intersen Phase ( Gr 4- 7 ) at 100%
• Over the ten years we have directly impacted 460 children.
• To help combat the dire impact of Covid on ECDs in Thembisa we opened two more Grade 000 and 00 classes taking on 40 additional children, employed two teachers and two assistant teachers - all of whom were trained and accredited at our Nokuphila Academy.
Early childhood development teacher training
• Annually we reach around 20 000 South African children from disadvantaged communities through the early childhood education teachers we have trained or who are currently in training with us.
• Our teacher training programme provides curriculum resources and mentorship to 153 early childhood development students in six teacher training centres in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KZN, Western Cape and Free State, plus two planned for 2022.
• We have graduated 728 early childhood development teachers since inception.
• 74 teacher training students in Thembisa are currently in training (of the 153 students registered) and a further 57 await verification.
• All of our Thembisa student teachers, and those in the support programme, receive further practical training at Nokuphila Pre-Primary by experienced, qualified, high calibre pre-primary teachers and education specialists.
• 153 students are enrolled in the 2022 programme.
We have ambitious plans for 2022
We aim to grow our reach and footprint by strengthening our partnerships with organisations that share our vision of delivering quality education to vulnerable communities as a means to a more sustainable long-term solution for the social inequalities in South Africa.
Nurturing our relationships with our donor partners, as well as cultivating new relationships, so that we continue delivering a high standard of well-rounded education programmes that our stakeholders are confident to recommend.
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