'Thanks a Million' Teacher Training Campaign

U P D A T E

On Women’s Day in South Africa, the Centre for Creative Education in Cape Town, launched our Thanks a Million Campaign to assist our student teachers.

We would like to thank everyone who has helped us reach R200 000. Your support means everything to us!

Not all of our supporters have used the Quicket platform and we have also received payments via EFT and through Freunde der Erziehungskunst.

We still have a way to go in order to reach our goal! We have therefore EXTENDED our campaign to run until 6 December 2020 in the hope of reaching one Million Rand!

During these strange and uncertain times, we have seen people from all walks of life come together in support of others in need. We have seen Community Action Networks and soup kitchens spring up, showing the care and concern of individuals for their neighbours and for people they do not know. There is a deep sense of Ubuntu living within people for their communities in South Africa. 

The effects of the strict lockdown continue to be difficult for everyone, with entire families affected by reduced income, retrenchments, and the strain of physical distancing and now in-person masked learning. Social injustices have become more clearly evident and the divide between the people who have and the people who do not, has deepened. Students continue to not be able to pay their full fees.

At the Centre for Creative Education, where 90% of our students are women, we made rapid adjustments to the pandemic. We moved to online training, assisted students with data, food, gave payment holidays and fee reductions, to support their ongoing education. We already raise R4 million for bursaries each year as our students cannot access funds made available to students studying at other South African public universities. This is not enough. 

As this year comes to an end, it continues to not be enough.

You can help them.

Be one of the 1000 people to donate R1000 to raise R1 million towards supporting our students.

Our country needs teachers. We believe that teachers hold the future within their classrooms, in their communities. We believe that inspired teachers engage with children in a caring, creative way to bring out the best in each child. We need great teachers. Now more than ever.

Centre for Creative Education offers accredited degree and diploma courses in:

• B.Ed in Foundation Phase Teaching

• ECD - Early Childhood Development (Level 4 & Level 5)

• B.A in Dance - Eurythmy

Share our campaign with your family and friends. Invite them to share it on their networks in SA and abroad. Donate individually or club together with your friends.

All contributors will get a Section 18A tax certificate.

For companies, we are certified as a Level 1 BBBEE contributor under the Socio Economic Development pillar. 

“It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives.” 

Rudolf Steiner

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