The Theo Jackson Scholarship Fund provides scholarships at Jeppe High School for Boys.

It takes a great investment in time and effort to unearth the hidden beauty of a rough diamond, transforming it into a precious gem and through the AVI Community Trust funding, 5 boys are being funded at the school, the fund specifically targets disadvantaged boys who are either orphaned, or come from single parent which aims to uncover the talents of boys.

Find out more: http://www.theojacksonfund.org.za/

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 14 Ruth First successful applicants for the duration of their highs school careers who are 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 28 tertiary education (B.Ed) students with loan bursaries of R40 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/

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/

Star Schools aims to empower learners by enabling them to achieve their potential in their final matriculation examinations and thus gain entry to higher education. The Incubator Programme serves to supplement and enhance what learners are taught at school. It is designed to interrogate foundational gaps, plug these and take learners on an academic journey which teaches them the knowledge and skills to bridge across from basics to cognitively demanding and high order content. Through the Incubator Programme, learners are exposed to high-quality educational materials and instruction in English, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, thus enabling them to pass their examinations at levels with which they can further their education at a tertiary institution. The inclusion of English as a subject has not only benefited the improvement of all other subjects, but also the learner’s ability to meet the demands of tertiary education and the workplace.  Career guidance instruction and life skills is also provided.

The AVI Community Trust continues to support 2 Incubator Programmes, Durban and Winterveldt, with a total of 270 learners for grade 10 to 12. The incubator programmes have supported learners from impoverished homes and underperforming schools in the Umlazi, Inanda, Kwa-Mashu and Claremont, Mabopane, winterveld and other townships.

Find out more: http://www.starschools.co.za/