We have got to a most exciting stage of Shine: we are ready to roll out to other schools: we hope to start with Claremont Primary, Prestwich in Greenpoint, behind Somerset Road, and hopefully Oranjekloof in Hout Bay, if we get the go - ahead from the principal.
We are busy recruiting volunteerson a weekly basis, who will be able to help is with the testing of the current grade ones in these schools, to help us identify which children will come to us in grade 2 next year. They will be able to start at school as a learning partner by the end of January 2009.
We hope to be able to start 20 schools in the next two years, so that by the end of 2010, we have a strong presence across Cape Town.
We are very busy with fund raising,and we have the most fantastic team of people helping us roll our project out: a dedicated team of people who are working flat-out on the various aspects of our organisation: marketing, PR,training, finances.... we have a great team leader/project manager, Trevor, who keeps us all very focused, who has streamlined our strategy planning onto Liquid Planner, a great tool for staying on- track and on the ball.
In the next two weeks we are moving into schools to test, and the training for the volunteers is taking place every week, so we can harness as much energy with new volunteers a s possible. There is an amazing energy about this: it has taken on a life of its own.
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