Our Beneficiaries

The Box Smart Foundation is proud to announce the beneficiaries for the 2020 Fight for Education.  Each beneficiary has been carefully selected and chosen in order to make a significant contribution to education initiatives from early childhood development to secondary school bursaries.

The Box Smart Foundation will be fighting to raise funds for the following organizations:

 

Sithanda Upliftment Projects

 

Sithanda UP is a non-profit organisation that aims to provide a sustainable and impactful solution to the serious lack of funding and support provided towards early-childhood development education in underprivileged communities across the country. To visit their website, kindly click here. http://www.sithanda.org/

 

Alex Education Committee (“AEC“

 

The AEC was founded by Dr Deane Yates in 1996 and operates as a non-profit NGO bursary scheme to uplift the children of Alexandra township. Currently under the guidance of Headmaster Paul Channon, the AEC exists to provide bursaries for academically promising learners from low-income families in Alexandra for the full five years of education at well-resourced high schools.  The learners attend weekly Saturday School lessons in key subjects.  To visit their website, kindly click here. http://www.alexeducation.org.za/

 

Community Assisting Schools (“CAS“)

 

 

CAS provides much-needed support by working with various schools which are struggling as a result of:

  • Minimal financial government assistance;
  • A lack of funding;
  • Declining fee paying student body;
  • Uninvolved parent bodies.

In addition, the social issues that plague society are evident in the student body of CAS supported schools including:

  • Child-led households;
  • Malnourishment;
  • Poverty;
  • Personal experience with HIV/AIDS;
  • Domestic abuse.

The CAS approach is pragmatic in its delivery of sustainable solutions to the schools that it seeks to assist.  CAS has the following core objectives:

  • To support the leadership, teachers and pupils within the schools;
  • To assist in building an educational foundation that will deliver the appropriate levels of learning amongst pupils;
  • To help facilitate the restoration, maintenance and upgrading of a school’s facilities to allow for an environment that is conducive to learning
  • To involve communities surrounding schools to assist in building a positive and collegiate social conscience
  • To put in place strategies that will allow these schools to become self-sustaining and viable
  • Develop a framework/blueprint where the CAS model can be delivered by communities in other areas/regions across South Africa