PROGRESS: Penpals& Mentorship, and Study material

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Hi  All
 
I think Nobusi has been accidentally excluded from emails for a while now. Apologies for that Nobusi. I have forwarded the information with regard to what I think you missed.
 
I have a suggestion I would like to put forward with regard to the Mentorship and Penpals aspect.
 
Perhaps we can have varisity students who are penpals( eg Rotarct cub), we could introduce the children to a student at varisty who is studying something related to what they are interested in pursuing. Those who don't really know what they'd like to study then will be placed with a random student. Part two of it would be to host a career day at the school. This would be done early in the year ( if we go for that option then we need to get moving with that now). We could have a guidance teacher to come and give a general career guidance talk and introduction into aptitudes etc. We could have some young professionals from different fields to answer questions from the students.
 
What are your thoughts? We need responses by the end of the week so we can get moving.
 
Also have you guys all made the deposits into the bank account for your initial contributions. Also can you guys please be really active in collecting study material and fundraising as we are going into Mid-Feb now, and the deadline for delivery of the study material is end Feb. We saw that there is a dire need for this material thus should try to supply as much as we can.
 
I will be doing a tally after the 15th to see how far we are in terms material collection and funds available so that we know how far we can go in allocating study material.
 
Regards,
Akholiwe
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Hi Tume,

A few days back you enquired about computers, I called the teacher to find out. She said that they have two but one is not working and the functional one is used for admin by the clerk. She said they don't have space to put them at the moment and went on to explain that there a few classrooms or unused rooms because the school was built my the community a long time ago. However if they would get computers with warning before they are handed over, the principle could make plan into building a secure structure for that purpose.

Best regards,
Akholiwe
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Good day all,

I am in agreement with the suggestion of student to student, however we would need to incorporate an aspect of having one "adult" giving motivational workshop. The mentorship aspect was envisaged to have a career guidence aspect, and I think that could be overlooked if we just have agemates being penpals outside of 'seniors' . Perhaps that workshop could be done once way before exams for each 'class'. Eg maths and physics class, business class, history class. In relation to the subject choices made. I hope you get where I'm going with this.

Best regards,
Akholiwe
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 01:40:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Penpals reply

Hi All
 
In light of the concerns about the penpals i concur with
 Sibongakonke. The idea of penpals i great but it is sensitive. Should we choose to take the option of connecting students with other students that too would need to be managed. But the latter idea seems more feasable after taking into account the mentioned concerns.



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Hi all
 
I'm with Akho, dig the ideas. We can definitely start approaching universities now about penpals. A quick question: 'round about when do we think we would want to do the career day thing? We just have to be mindful of the time we need to allow ourselves for planning, especially seeing that we need more time than others would need since this project is not the only thing all of us are focussing on. If we can have enough time to plan a career day and make it happen on time, then I don't see why we shouldn't do it.
 
Nozza I'm still waiting on your response about the books in East London.
Nobusi are you still keen to fetch books in Joburg for me?
Are there no questions for the bank about the documents?
 
My old high school has agreed to donate some text books, I'm going to go fetch them as soon as I can.
Cosmas has been in Hermanus this week, he confirmed that he received my email, he said we'll talk on Friday when he's back in town.
 
Regards
 
Sibongakonke

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Hi all

Just an update; I called Pearson (what used to Maskew Millar Longman) and they asked me to send them an explanation of what we seek to do and how we would like them to help. The lady I spoke to there, Anthea Variend, said that they've got a huge backlog in orders for the Eastern Cape because schools and government went through their ordering process late. She said that they would look into how they can help us as soon as they've dealt with what's on their hands.

Onto the pen pal/career day; Asa how's it going with trying to find out if WSU and/or Rhodes University Rotaract teams would be willing to get involved in the pen pal programme? I've spoken to a company in East London, Siseko, that seeks to contribute to education. They said that they do things like career day, and could pull it off for us. Nothing has been finalised as yet, so we can't rest easy on the logistics around the career day. However, I've sent them questions around what it would take for them to pull it off, when they could do it, how much time they'd need for planning, and what they'd need from our side. I'm waiting on their response.

Onto group admin; we need a name, may we please get ideas. Some of my ideas; "Ibhongo" , "Libhongo" , "Bhongolethu" , "Ibhongo lethu" , "Bhongo lomzi" (umzi being umzi wakwaNtu). Someone threw "Vulindlela" at me. What do you guys think? We need to get these little things out the way, lest they hinder our processes just when we're ready to put everything together. Let's talk and share ideas.

We also need a group logo. What do you guys think about this. What image do you guys see when you apply your mind on what we are trying to do? I know someone who is ready and willing to put a logo together for us for free, he is literally waiting on my go ahead. I need ideas from you guys around what kind of image you think would best represent us. Let's discuss and share ideas so we can get moving. I thought of a slogan for us "Education has no expiry date". What do you guys think? Want to play around with it? Make your own suggestions, let's talk.

We need to decide on the structure of the group, i.e. roles. If we want to register as a PBO with SARS, this is imperative. We need to decide on all the roles; directors/ceo's,etc, project managers, logistics people, fundraisers (if we want to be specific about it, cause we can all be fundraisers), think tank (ideas people), media liaisons/spokespeople (when we need them), etc. We also need to decide on ownership of the ho amongst us will be take ownership of the group. We need to decide if ownership of the group goes to directors or whether it's going to work differently. This is all very important for our registration as a PBO.

Cosmas and I will be talking next week, I'll let you guys know what's happening as soon as he gets back to me. Once again, what's happening with the book collection in East London (Nozza) and Joburg (Nobusi)? Are there no questions for Igshaan at the bank. And, lastly, a reminder to all who can to deposit something into the group's bank account.

Regards
Sbonga
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Subject: PROGRESS: Penpals& Mentorship, and Study material

Sibongakonke

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Clarification: by "ready to put a logo together" I mean ready to design one. I'm going to talk to him about digitising it,etc.

Oh, and that slogan I suggested, or any slogan for that matter, doesn't have to be in English.
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Hi Sam and everyone

Thought I'd responded, but I see I didn't. Thanks for letting us know. From my side, I totally understand. We'll hear from you as to when you can help out with whatever. I'm going to check with Igshaan if you have to have signed that other document he forgot to get you sign to be properly deemed a trustee. Would you still like to be a trustee or would you rather not be one? What does everyone else think?

P.S Still waiting on responses to previous email.

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Sibonga
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Hi guys

Trust you've all been well. Perhaps this is somewhat unrelated,my apologies.

This is just to say that I've since moved to Johannesburg (from CT),given my demanding work and study schedule,my involvement in the group will be minimal i.e I will be doing what I can as and when it's possible.

I'm also cognisant of the fact that I'm one of trustees,that said I wouldn't want to hinder the smooth running of activities as it were. Therefore,I'd be glad to relinquish this 'position' if my minimal involvement would be a hinderance of any kind,please do not hesitate to inform me if this were the case.

I'm encouraged by the progress made thus far,I think its an extremely important initiative.

Wish you the best of everything guys!!

Warm regards :-)
Sambulo
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Hey guys,

They do have Rotaract at WSU nmd campus n I sent an email to them and I am waiting for a reply. I have not contacted Rhodes yet as they just opened school today.I will do so during the course of the week.

Asa
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Hi Asa and everyone


Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated sisi.

P.S. Still waiting for responses to the email.


Regards

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Hey Thoks,

I think Sakhisizwe would be great as a name 4 da group.
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Hi guys,

I think the slogan should be 'SAKHA ISIZWE',it might be over used but I think it suites the initiative.

Thanks,
Thoko
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Hi Sibonga and everyone
 
I would still like to continue however, if at all it becomes a hinderance of sorts, i will gladly pull out. Thanks for taking up the mantle re Igshaan, will wait to hear from you.
 
Warm regards
Sambulo

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Somehow got left out of Thoko's response, only seeing it now as it is quoted in Asa's email.

Great suggestion Thoko :) also doesn't limit our group to education should we want to broaden our horizons. Let's see what everyone else has to say
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I second 'Sakhisizwe' it has meaning.

Sibo about the pick ups in EL I'm in PE at the moment and hadn't gone. I'll try my best to send someone. Sorry about that
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Sorry guys

That empty email was a mistake
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