Help Comes To Fort Brown
08 December 2011
Due to concern around the lack of services and development for indigent people living in the rural areas The Angus Gillis Foundation has come to the fore to do what they can to help, as seen at Fort Brown Primary School in the rural village of Fort Brown near Grahamstown. In this video we meet Ntombekhaya Ndlebe the Principal of Fort Brown Primary to explain more about how the Angus Gillis Foundation together with social investment friends The Nedbank Foundation played their part for the children of Fort Brown.
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The Angus Gillis Foundation, in consultation with the local communities decided to centralise primary schooling in the rural areas near Grahamstown and built a new school at the cost of R850 000 in 2005. After consultation with communities, the school was built at Fort Brown which was the most central venue. The structure consists of four classrooms, a library, office and an ablution block. This has strengthened education and made a marked difference in the communicty. The Nedbank Foundation contributed to the building of teacher’s accommodation for the school in 2009. The school now boasts a three bed roomed teacher’s house, which has brought significant benefits to the educators. Fort Brown Primary school currently caters for 62 learners from Grade R to Grade 7 and is served by three teachers, an administrative clerk and a cook.
Fort Brown Primary School Principal Ntombekhaya Ndlebe (right) says her thanks to Head of The Nedbank Foundation Kone Gugushe , Divisional Executive: Group Communications Tabby Tsengiwe and Regional Portfolio Manager of Nedbank Bulelani Ntuli. Pic George Siliya
Eastern Cape is one of the poorest performing provinces in South Africa when it comes to education. Nedbank works closely with Government to improve the state of education in this province. Nedbank’s focus on education includes school-based educational projects, early-childhood development, rural-school refurbishment, teacher training, tertiary education and other government-identified priorities.
Source www.nedbankgroup.co.za, Magnificent Fridays News Desk, www.angusgillisfoundation.co.za
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