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"What are our objectives?"
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Our objectives

The broad objective of the charity is to assist in bridging the "Digital Divide" for teachers and pupils in primary schools in very impoverished areas of greater Cape Town, through the provision of computer technology and related support services in the schools.

The strategic objectives of the charity are:

  • To ensure that all of the teachers and children acquire a competent level of computer literacy.
  • To assist in raising standards of literacy and numeracy through the use of state-of-the-art educational software.
  • To enable the teachers to use the technology to reduce their administrative workload.
  • To bring about a situation where the school curriculum and the technology have become seamlessly integrated.
  • To bring about improvements in levels of alertness of the most needy children through the provision of school feeding programmes.
  • To achieve increased levels of awareness of preventive measures for protection against HIV/AIDS through the provision of appropriate health programmes.
  • To recruit young, unemployed matriculants in the local communities, and to develop them in such a way that they can become full-fledged IT Technicians.
  • To ensure that the schools are enabled to become both financially and technically self-sufficient in terms of their ability to fund and run their computer laboratories.
  • Where meaningful and affordable, to have independent studies carried out on the impact of the use of the technology on levels of literacy and numeracy at the supported schools.