OneVoice South Africa (OVSA) is a small organisation, with a big Vision, of a world where young people can actively engage on meaningful opportunities for personal development and raise their voices to bring about a healthier future for themselves and their communities.

The AVI Community Investment Trust contribution assisted with the roll-out of the Life Skills and Enterprise Projects with the new Grade 8, 9 and 11 learners, in their two partner schools.

Find out more: www.onevoice.org.za

Nthuse Foundation was established in 2013 with the aim to assist youth with disabilities within varied ranges of disabilities, from physical, sensory, psychiatric, neurological, and intellectual disabilities, to obtain a tertiary qualification. By integrating disabled students with non-disabled students, they are creating awareness that disability is a way of life and not a separate society. They focus on Ability, Attitude and Successful Integration into the workplace. They believe in empowering and equipping youth with disabilities from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, with the means to obtain a Tertiary qualification, to provide them with an equal opportunity to enter into the workplace and become a part of the economically active population.

The AVI Community Investment Trust funding contributed towards 4 deserving students who are living with disabilities to further their studies in commerce and information technology degrees.

Find out more: https://nthusefoundation.org.za/

OLICO offers a sense-making and confidence-building approach that makes math’s accessible and meaningful. OLICO provides high quality math’s resources and after school math’s tuition tailored to the learners at the school. Through the development of high quality math’s resources and programmes, they test and refine their approach through direct implementation and in collaboration with partnering teachers, tutors and NGOs.

The AVI Community Investment Trust has adopted and expand the OLICO Maths Education programme at Alex High School, this will fundamentally transform the math’s performance of the school and make a notable impact on the math’s results of the wider Alex community.

Find out more: https://learn.olico.org/

Michaelhouse Community Partnerships Trust was founded in 2000 and seeks to meaningfully invest in local public schools. The Trust partners with 18 public schools located between Lions River and Mooi River in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, to improve education and to offer teacher development through training and mentorship.

A key project that benefits from the AVI Community Investment Trust funding is the Edu-helpers programme. A group of 6 Edu-helpers who are passionate, qualified or qualifying teachers were recruited to teach, tutor, coach a sport or assist with any development programmes required to support the school where they are placed as well as the surrounding community.

Find out more: https://www.mcommunitypartnerships.com/

LEAP Science and Maths Schools provide free education to students from high-need communities, and have mathematics, physical science and English as mandatory subjects. Their school day is extended to 9 hours, and they have Saturday classes and formal holiday programmes. Every LEAP assisted school is partnered with a more privileged school within the surrounding area. This three-way collaboration creates the opportunity to share excellence in all spheres.

The relationship with LEAP School started with 1 Grade 12 learner that was funded in 2020. The support has since increased to 10 learners which are between Grade 8 and 12 from the Diepsloot School in Gauteng, the Alexandra School in Gauteng and the Langa School in Western Cape.

Find out more: https://leapschool.org.za/

The Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation places a strong emphasis on marine science literacy, for the benefit of future generations of South African children, and the ocean at large. Efforts of the Education Foundation include environmental education outreach programmes, free courses via the Marine Sciences Academy, and thousands of lessons for school learners.

To support the Two Oceans effort, the AVI Community Trust made a contribution towards the Junior Biologist, Marine Science and Oceanography.

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

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/