The St Mary’s Foundation is actively committed to providing critical resources and opportunities to those who need it the most, through supporting education for previously disadvantaged girls, training and developing teachers, and funding associated community affairs programs.

The Trust has committed to 2 girls to complete their studies as St Mary’s School. The bursary includes boarding, tuition, books, stationery, uniforms, an allowance for tours and participation in cultural or sporting activities as well as funds to provide the necessary equipment for these activities.

Find out more: https://www.stmarysschool.co.za/foundation

The My Maths Buddy One Book One Learner Project is an initiative by South African Mathematics Foundation to forward excellence in Maths understanding and improved results for Maths Teachers and Learners. This is done through focused workshops in which the book, My Maths Buddy, which is provided to all teachers and Learners in attendance.

My Maths Buddy is a dictionary developed to help learners and teachers to understand the Maths terminology well, together with that there is a programme called the My Maths Buddy project in schools for teachers and learners were they are taught how to use the My Maths Buddy dictionary and understand Maths concepts.

For the period the AVI Community Trust has funded the roll out of the My Maths Buddy programme in 2 schools, 1 in Tembisa  in Gauteng and 1 Bonteheuwel in the Western Cape.

Find out more:  https://mymathsbuddy.co.za/initiative/

Jeppe High School for Girls is one of South Africa’s premier public schools. It has an enviable matric results record (100% for 24 years). The school offers holistic education with a well-developed extra-curricular programme.

Through the Ruth First Jeppe Memorial Trust the AVI Community Trust has sponsored selected candidates from Kliptown Youth Programme since 2012 for the duration of their high school careers and is currently supporting 8 girls who is in different grades from grade 8 to grade 12.

Find out more: https://www.ruthfirstjeppetrust.co.za/

The Rapport Onderwysfonds (ROF) is a non-profit organisation (NPO) that focuses on supporting tertiary education students with loan bursaries. Every year a portion of the interest-bearing loan may be converted, on a sliding scale, to a bursary based on academic results. In this way, the student is motivated to achieve better results with a view to a smaller amount of debt being repayable at the end of his/her term of study. The repayment to ROF by students at the end of their studies, ensures that the money remains in circulation to generate new loan bursaries for ROF students and to manage the Fund in a sustainable manner.

For the period the AVI Community Trust is supporting 25 tertiary education (B.Ed) students with loan bursaries of R30 000 each per annum to pursue a career as a teacher. The financial contribution enables the students to continue their studies without the burden of financial restraints.

Find out more: https://www.rof.org.za/

The Love Trust is a non-profit organisation established in 2009 with a vision to grow a generation of servant leaders, and mission to deliver excellent, values-based education to vulnerable children. The primary beneficiaries are vulnerable children and ECD teachers that operate in communities of need. Through careful consideration of unique skills and resources.

The Love Trust have come to believe the most effective way to make lasting and positive change is through the delivery of excellent education to these communities, through a very well run school, Nokuphila School, for middle class children from the Midrand community.

With the support from the AVI Community Trust, Love Trust has been able to continue with the effective running of the Nokuphila School.

Find out more: https://www.lovetrust.co.za/

Kingsway School provides quality early childhood development to disadvantaged preschool children mostly from the informal settlements of Zandspruit and surrounding areas. The ECD classes are equipped with resources to implement the curriculum and are led by one teacher and a teaching assistant. In addition to that the learners receive food parcels which they take home.

The AVI Community Trust partners with Kingsway School to ensure fulfilment of their ultimate objectives, that by the end of each schooling year; 80% of our grade R should be able to proceed to grade 1 after having passed the School Readiness Assessment and 80 % of the grade 00 children should meet their age appropriate developmental milestones by age level.

Find out more: https://kingswayschool.org/

Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme seeks to secure the future of South African Youth by providing needs-based assistance to students from poor and working classes. This programme will enable students to acquire a broad set of knowledge, skills and character traits that will significantly improve their meaningful participation in the growth of the country, including the economy, human development, leadership, ethical behaviour and broad citizenship.

AVI currently supports 13 students in various fields namely engineering over their 4 year degree. The support includes meals, accommodation, transport, books and stipends. Additional phyco-social support is provided to students in the programme including academic support, managed social support, life skills training, mentoring and medical support.   The intention is to advance equal opportunity and equitable income distribution for all South Africans.

Find out more: https://www.isfap.co.za/

The Enactus programme in South Africa directly promotes and supports leadership and professional development for registered students, present at all public higher education institutions and some private institutions. This programme challenges students to take entrepreneurial action to enable progress, through the entrepreneurship skills development programme and the teams’ educational outreach projects that will improve the quality of life and standard of living of the marginalised communities.

The AVI Community Trust currently sponsors 4 teams in 4 South African universities. With unemployment as the greatest threat to stability and ongoing progress, Enactus and AVI believe that entrepreneurship and the development of the unemployed, will contribute to enhancing and empowering local communities.

Find out more: http://www.enactusza.org/

The Carel du Toit Centre provides a vital service for deaf children, many of whom come from disadvantaged communities in the northern and southern suburbs of Cape Town. The aim of the Carel du Toit Centre is to offer a holistic approach for the detection, intervention and treatment for hearing impaired children in order for them to enter a school where they have access to the mainstream curriculum and have adequate spoken language in order to thrive in a hearing society.

In this financial year support to the Carel du Toit Centre went towards the Transport programme, the centre has five school busses covering 5 transport routes across the Western Cape. Many of the parents are unable to pay transport and are subsidised by the school, placing a huge expense on the school. Carel du Toit Centre is the only school of its kind in the Western Cape and most of the learners come from far outlying areas. More than 60% of the learners depend on our Access to Specialised System to get to school and back home.

Find out more: https://careldutoit.co.za/