A Spring of Hope supports educators, students, and community members in rural South Africa
A Spring of Hope supports educators, students, and community members in rural South Africa
We work with our schools to help them gain independence to sustain the success of the programs and furthermore promote similar improvements into the community. We believe that every student deserves to learn in a safe, healthy, and inspiring environment. When schools have the resources they need they are able to focus on providing the support and quality education students need to achieve academic and career success.
Will you help us continue our work of bringing clean drinking water, improved sanitation facilities, and food security to schools and communities in rural South Africa?
The core of our program is to provide water to underprivileged schools. When schools get a reliable source of fresh, clean water the health of students improves and economic development can begin.
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Once schools have water, they can begin to cultivate gardens. We provide them with seeds and irrigation equipment, and school staff learn how to maximize resources through our permaculture program.
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Most rural schools only have crude, unhygienic pit toilets which spread disease. Because water tends to be scarce in this region, environmentally-friendly waterless toilets are the best solution.
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By improving the conditions of our partner school kitchens for the volunteers who prepare the meals, we create a healthier work environment and eliminate the time spent hauling wood and standing over large fires inhaling smoke.
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Our Strong Girls Make Strong Women campaign helps empower young women by offering them the resources they need to stay in school, teaching life skills, setting S.M.A.R.T goals, and providing them with menstrual health products.
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In order to address the massive challenge of youth unemployment in South Africa, A Spring of Hope partnered with Junior Achievement to teach young people about the management of economics, business, entrepreneurship and personal finances.
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Thanks to our generous supporters we have reached our goal.
We raised enough for the construction of the centre and broke ground on July 2018. Since then, we have made significant progress. The sanitation buildings are complete and the outdoor classroom is also finished, with the first permaculture classes held in the fall of 2019. The construction of the main centre is underway and security cottage will be starting soon. The netting is finished for our permaculture gardens and we have been harvesting vegetables for our partner lodge, Thulani.