IkamvaYouth Gauteng
IkamvaYouth Gauteng is SEF’s academic support programme for township school learners between grades 10-12 providing: supplementary tutoring, career guidance and mentoring, e-literacy training, life-skills development, and creative expresssion programmes.
IkamvaYouth is largely volunteer-driven with branches in Khayelitsha, Nyanga (western Cape), Cato Crest (KwaZulu-Natal) and Ivory Park (Gauteng) – the newest branch powered by SEF. IkamvaYouth mobilises volunteers, mostly university students, to tutor learners from township schools. The results have been exceptional over the last three years with a 95% matric pass rate and over 60% of our Ikamvanite learners achieving access to tertiary institutions when they leave school.
A major success of the IkanvaYouth model is the number of ex-learners who return as volunteers to tutor in the programme with nearly half the current volunteer base in the Western Cape comprising ex-learners. IkamvaYouth was one of two South African based organisations to make the finals of the Change Makers “Champions of Quality Education in Africa” Award in 2009 (the other was the LEAP Science and Maths School).
Watch a 20min Anna Telford documentary: http://vimeo.com/9318052.
To volunteer at the Gauteng branch, email: mirah@ikamvayouth.org.
To learn more, go to the IkamvaYouth website: www.ikamvayouth.org.