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Description
In 2008, TransCape initiated a scholarship program which offers dedicated and top-performing students an opportunity to a better education at a more advanced school in Mthatha. Since then at least two new scholarships have been started every year. Candidates are selected from the top-performing grade 10 students attending the After School Enrichment program. The project covers their fees, clothes, accommodation, transport and food up to Grade 12 and one-year tertiary education. They are regularly monitored and support are available 24/7.
Development Challenge
Development Challenge
Schools in rural areas in the Eastern Cape have an average pass rate of below 30%. Public schools lack sufficient resources, and teachers are unmotivated. Sometimes, students have to walk up to 16 km a day to school. The traditional lifestyle of people living in rural areas negatively influences school attendance, as children have to participate in many livelihood chores. No lighting and private space at home also makes it very difficult for students to study.
Project Aim
Project Aim
The project aim is to offer two Grade 10 students per year an opportunity to attend a school of much higher quality in Mthatha. Through the project, their fees, uniforms, accommodation and food are covered. They are monitored and supported during their enrollment in the Mthatha School. They are supported up to one-year tertiary education.
Investing in talented youths doesn’t just change the lives of the scholarship students and their families-- it also provides role models to younger students, as well as cultivating leaders for communities.
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Beneficiaries
According to a Nodal Economic Profile, the OR Tambo District is characterized by poor roads, a limited skills base, no tradition of business or entrepreneurship and a high crime rate. Employment in the node is at only 11%, while 38% of adults have received no schooling at all, and only 5% of people in the area have received a higher education. The Mankosi Administrative Area is situated in the OR Tambo Presidential Poverty Node. As illustrated above, the area is beset by a lack of skills, a severe lack of quality education as well as high unemployment and soaring HIV infection rates. In the rural communities and there is a heavy reliance on pensions and government grants for survival and high levels of illiteracy occur, even in adults who have received some form of schooling.
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