KNYSNA NEWS - On Friday 6 May, the Knysna Education Trust celebrated the official roof wetting of Melrose House, home of the Cradle to Career Education Model.
Knysna Education Trust (Ket), Knysna Initiative for Learning and Teaching (Kilt) and Heal Equip Restore Optimise Strengths (Hero) are collaborating in a shared space to reduce operating and administration costs while working together to improve the quality of education in the greater Knysna region.
The employees of the three NPOs opened the festivities with the iconic song Lean on Me by Bill Withers.
This symbolised the organisations are working together and leaning on one another in times of need, while also extending a hand to all the local education facilities and schools in pursuit of providing quality education to local children.
Ket improves the early childhood education sector by providing services and programmes to all forms of early childhood development facilities located in the 1 200km service area.
Their mission is for every child to attend a safe preschool with competent, qualified teachers, where literacy, numeracy, and life-skill lessons happen daily - and where training, on-site mentoring and support to teachers and parents ensure all children reach crucial developmental outcomes.
Kilt works to make it possible for every child in Knysna to attend any local school and be assured of a learning environment that gives them a solid foundation and the opportunity to realise their true potential.
Lynne Stoker (director of Hero), Sandy Ueckerman (managing director of Kilt), Knysna Mayor Levael Davis, and Angelina Smith (general manager of Ket).
The organisation strives to augment Knysna's entire school system and enable principals and their teams to transform their schools into centres of excellence that equip young people with the adaptability and resilience to thrive in the changing world of work.
Hero's mission is to restore the lives of traumatised children and youth through various interventions, including therapy for families and training professionals, community members and volunteers, in the skills required to assist.
Many children in our local communities in Knysna, Rheenendal and Plettenberg Bay benefit from their interventions.
Together, these NPOs hope to create access to quality education for all children in the Knysna region, leading to flourishing families, work opportunities, economic mobility, effective investment in education funding, and more equitable society.
If you would like to learn more about these organisations, visit Melrose House, 34 Queen Street, Knysna, and experience the magic that happens when people work together for the good of their community.
Melrose House has been revamped thanks to generous donors, who value the work these NPOs do in Knysna.
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