By-Youth,For-Youth Education in
South African Townships
Quest conference York District, Ontario, Canada
18 November 2010
Funeka KalawePhillip Mcelu
Joy Olivier
South Africa's Education Crisis
- SA is among the worst- performing education systems in the world
- Only 17.4% of the Western Cape's grade 6 students have grade-level numeracy skills and
48.6% have grade-level literacy skills
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Why We Exist:
Inequality in the education system
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Challenging home environments provide little or no academic
support
Average monthly household
income: 144 CAD30% of the population is HIV positive
40% unemployed
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Without the skills, knowledge and practices required, learners are unable to access tertiary education. Without educated young black citizens, South Africa cannot escape the inequalities
engineered by apartheid.
It is only through equal access to quality education that the promise of a transformed SA can truly be
realised
Positive change with very little resources and a lot of
passion
We’re currently based in:
Western Cape
Gauteng
Kwa Zulu Natal
Who we are and what we do
By-youth, for-youth Established in 2003 Enable disadvantaged youth to pull themselves out of poverty and into university
Peer-to-peer support for learners taking their futures
into their own hands
Over 50% of learners stay on as volunteers
Who we are and what we do
Opt-in model + incentivised attendance = committed learners and impressive results
Where to from here?
Consolidation: IkamvaYouth-in-a-Box
Sustainable funding
Roll-out
Target: To enable 855 learners to access tertiary by 2015 (half of the number in the entire Western Cape province in 2008)
Questions?
Please keep in touch!
www.ikamvayouth.org THANK YOU!
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