Lunchtime at Siyazama

FOGADD gives financial assistance to Siyazama pre-school education, which supports children from struggling families. Siyazama provides meals to the children, who often come to school hungry.

Siyazama playground

Siyazama pre-school education acts as a model for pre-school education in the townships.

Success in science

Nuraan Swartz, a FOGADD scholar, and winner of an award at a competition for young scientists.

A practical experiment organised by the mobile science lab

FOGADD helps fund a mobile science lab which tours schools to help improve the teaching of science in Grahamstown.

Successful students from GADRA Matric School

Youth unemployment in Grahamstown is over 50%. Matric (the end of school qualification) is vital in order to progress. The GADRA Matric School provides a highly succesful, intensive course for students who have failed their matric (or who need to improve their grades). FOGADD helps fund the GADRA Matric School.

Classroom at Tantji Primary School, Grahamstown

As part of the GADRA Whistlestop project (supported by FOGADD), this classroom in a township primary school has been renovated. It is used to provide 45 minutes of daily reading practice for pupils who are falling behind. Results have been excellent. Poor reading skills are often at the root of poor achievement in secondary education.

The Tantji Primary School classroom before its makeover

This is what the Tantji Primary School classroom looked like before the GADRA Whistlestop makeover (see previous photo).

Tantji Primary School, Grahamstown

A view from Tantji Primary School, taken by our FOGADD volunteer, Helen Megone.