Story

By Andile Mfazwe
Development sponsorship
South Africa
Sponsorship
Our structure is currently comprising of the undergraduates and graduates’ individuals who would like to contribute toward our community by ploughing back our skills and experience that we have acquired to the young students who are still at their lower and higher school grades around our area of Sasolburg. Currently, the five of us came up with this plan of doing extra tutorial classes starting from the winter school holidays of 2024. Our structure stands as follows: Mr Andile Mfazwe (Managing Director), Rozelle Blignaut (Treasury), Ranyane Musiwe (Secretary), Sibongile Khambule (General manager) and Thabang Rampai (Administration). Mr Mfazwe had a Business Administration Diploma and is currently busy with his BBA Degree majoring in Accounting and Economics and an SGB executive member around one of Sasolburg schools, Ms Rozelle Blignaut had an Educare N6 and currently busy with her Bachelor of Education degree with UNISA, Mr Ranyene Musiwe has a BA in education and currently a school teacher around Sasolburg schools, Mr Sibongile Khambule and had achieved his BSC Degree with Mathe-matics and Science and Thabang Rampai had completed his Visual Arts qualification. However, we are willing to welcome any other individuals amongst us who is interested to join us on this endeavor in order to add any kind of a value towards achieving it. Our theme is, “Nothing that can stop, your future is in your hands”, we have chosen this theme in order for us to see and focus at the bigger picture (conceptualizing)and encourage all those young ones in order to take all the opportunity that our beautiful country had to offer with both hands. We also want to inspire and motivate them in order to never give up and keep on moving forward regardless of the challenges that they are faced with. These extra tutorial classes will be conducted by tutors and qualified teachers in and around our local area of ward 17. We want to contribute positively to our society, we have already identify our temporarily place of operation, and the department of education has granted us the permission to utilise their premises. Our temporarily place of operation will be the old Sakhubutsha building just around Rosemary Connie Island. The reason behind the chosen place of operation is that, it is a convenient place with the necessary infrastructure that can cater for this project. Our target market is the Local town schools like HTS high school, Sasolburg High school, Affies high school, A.J. Jacobs primary school, Noord prima-ry school and Leeuwspruit primary school. The reason behind our market is that, these are our local area schools and most of the students that are attending in these schools are staying around our area but then, our services is open (welcome) everyone who is interested to attend regardless of place of stay especially around Sasolburg as the whole. We plan to offer with the following tutorials services: • Afrikaans, Indigenous and English languages • Accounting and Economics sciences, • Mathematics and Physical sciences • Drawings and Visual arts, • Sports and Cultural activities The reason behind this initiative, especially after we have done our research, we then find out that our area, is a divers and culturally mixed area, that have almost all our countries human races. There is a concerned problematic matter raised by our local community people, that is regarding the way our kids in our society negatively affected by socio economic and household’s challenges. They found themselves being inactive after they knock off from the school because of scarce re-sources like sports and cultural activities that is not there at all. At the end, they end-up wondering (roaming around the streets) and not being extra active at all. We then felt that we should do something about it, we then came up with this kind of an initiative that we are proposing to all mothers and fathers out there, potential business people and other stakeholders to lay a helping hand in order for us to achieve this goal. We are positively think that, if we can achieve this initiative of extra tutorial classes and sport activities, we’ll be able to save our countries future and that of the next generation to come. Remember that, by letting our kids to be involved in destructive activities that had a potential of ruining their future, is a ticking bomb that can lead us as a nation very close to extinction. As you may well be aware that, our country is at the brink of a high crime rate, drugs and human trafficking, that is becoming uncontrollable. We then felt that we should try and do something about it, and that’s one of the reason’s why we came up with this initiative of extra Tutorials classes, sports and cultural activities. We are aware of the fact that; our local schools are really trying to offer such related activities during the school hours but then still we felt that it is not enough. Here we are trying to offer with something that our kids we’ll be proud of and feel that it is theirs, meaning that they own it. Successful tutoring, like teaching, is not an exact science, it based on thorough planning good communication between student and the tutor. Tutorials serve to compliment schools classes. Specifically, they provide teaching and learning opportunities for which student assemble in (relative) small groups. That context allows interaction that are not feasible in school classes. It follows that tutorials are not repeat school classes- nor, indeed, are they classes of any kind rather, they provide opportunities for participation by individual student, who may respond to questions and pose questions of their own. How are going to plan an effective learning environment? That’s one of the question that we have asked ourselves and we came out to agree to the fact that, students are a very diverse group, coming from a variety of ethnic, religious, linguistic, social and economic backgrounds. We will need to take this into account and aim to create a safe learning environment so that all participants feel included.  Our students will feel that they are part of a group  We will have to acknowledged our students as individuals (speaking to them, or recognized them, or know their name.  We will facilitate and support good relationship within the group.  We will make sure that they are not put down if they make mistakes  See to it that sessions aim is clear achievable  Everyone had a chance to participate and get actively involved  Make sure that we are anticipate the difficulties and problems that our student are likely to have How will be our first day tutorial classes? That’s the other question that we have asked ourselves during our synergy meeting.  As tutors, we are mandated that we introduced ourselves when we are about to conduct a class (session)  Write your name on the board and give a contact number and office hours (if you have)  Do a getting to know each other session. This will get the student talking to each other and takes the heat off you (tutor) for a while.  Discuss expectations about what will go on in the tutorials and negotiate some ground rules. Establish participation as one of the ground rules for contribution to the tutorials  Learn your student names, as students will respond to you more if they feel that know you, and above all that t you know them  How we will handle the conflicts during the sessions? That’s another question that we have pose to ourselves.  We need to develop and maintain ground rules. Being able to refer to ground rules will of-ten help defuse a potentially irritating or disruptive problem  Be assertive, this may involve you stating your opinion or request, listening actively to an-other person opinion, reflection back on what he/she says without comment or criticism,  Confront the situation. Confronting has the connotation of aggression, but positive confrontation simply means stating you’re concern about behavior you find unsettling or disruptive. Self-disclosure can be useful We plan to offering after-school tutorials for every Monday to Friday from 15:00 afternoon and until Saturdays at 10:00 in morning. These tutorials will only rely on the fund raising that we are about to embarking on and the sponsors, donation, individuals, government, our local business people, firms and other stake-holders. We are planning to sell this initiative and proposal to all South Africans that are in and out of Sasolburg as the whole in order for it to be realized. We are planning to commence during the winter school holidays of June and July 2024 and will continue throughout the school year. Starting from next year (2025) we will start with the school calendar year. Tutorial will be broken up by grade level: • Afrikaans, Indigenous and English languages • Accounting and Economics sciences • Mathematics and Physical sciences • Geography and Biology • Technologies and Visual Arts • Sports and cultural Sessions Obviously and of cause, that ca not be feasible (realized) without the below kind of resources, this will help us for the registration of our students and know the exact number of students that we are dealing with. Also for the tutorial purpose like printing and photocopying. General stationery and equipment required: • Laptop/ Desktop/ Tablet • 2.04 + GHZ processor • 4+ gigs of RAM • A webcam • A built-in or external or external microphone • An internet browser • Google Chrome • An internet connection with a minimum: • 10 Mbps download • 10 Mbps upload speed Printer • Printer may be required at times General Stationery • Pens (blue/ black) • Pencil (grey/orange) • Eraser • Sharpener • Glue • 30cm Ruler • 4 x Exam Pads • Highlighters • Scissors • Calculators • 32 – page (primary school) / 72 page (high school) exercise book for each subject (this is recommended for activities and taking notes Accounting • Journals • Creditors journal • General Ledge • Column Journal • Lined Journal • Cash journal Afrikaans HI (Huistool) and EAT (Eerste Addisionele Taal) Handwordeboek van die Afrikaans Taal (HAT) Afrikaans / English pocket dictionary • Medium materials if possible (newspapers magazines, radio talks / dramas, television, television shows / documentaries Business Studies • Scientific Calculator Computer Application Technology (CAT) • Windows 10 or the latest • Microsoft office 2016 or 365 • Microsoft Word for documents • Microsoft Excel for Spreadsheets • Microsoft PowerPoint for slideshows / presentation • Microsoft Access for database (Grade 11-12) Economics • Scientific Calculator Geography • Scientific Calculator • Mathematical and Geometry set Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy • Scientific Calculator • Geometry set • Block paper Physical Sciences - Scientific calculator - Thermometer - Stopwatch - Geometry Visual Arts  A4 hardcover visual diary (90-120g)  Paint (acrylic or water based) and an extra tube of white paint  Paint brushes (2 flat brushers, big and small, 2 round brushes, large and fine, Brushers with soft bristles are best  10 Sheets A3 Alpine board (355g)  Puffy eraser  Patel Arts Oil Pastel  Data Acrylic ink 50ml black  30 sheets A4 butcher paper (45g), or tracing paper book  1 set of coloured pencil crayons  5 sticks of charcoal Feeding Scheme  We are aware of the fact that especially in our area of Rosemary, there are student kids that comes from disadvantaged households, so it is one of our aim to see some sort of a feeding scheme that will cater for those young ones. As you might be aware that a meal a day makes a difference to a child future, so we are inviting our local supermarkets to come to the party for this one as part of their contribution (Corporate socio-Investment) towards this initiative. Equipment, Stationery and Sports Resources  As we have already alluded from the paragraphs above, that it is through sports and education participation that we can unite not only our country but the word as a whole. So we then thought that by including sports activities like soccer, netball, and the others, shall we conquer. So we would like to invite all our local companies, individuals and the government to help us to fundraise for this initiative of extra tutorial classes tutorials. We are planning to have our first fundraising meeting towards the end of June 2024 and would like to invite all potential stakeholders in and around our local area of Sasolburg. We would like them to help us in fundraising for the project  Basically, all of the above mentioned are our positive start towards the realization of these tutorials that we intend to facilitate as the Tutors and Teachers. Ours is the love (being patriotic) of our country and the passion that we have for education, we believe that, alleviating poverty and crime will automatically decrease with such initiatives. Our contact information is as follows: Ms Blignaut cell is 0780396530, e-mail blignautr192@gmail.com and Mr Mfazwe cell is 0646479988 and e-mail is mfazweab2@gmail.com -