A bright literacy future lies ahead for Alex children
Alex children have been roped into a literacy programme that seeks to prepare them for a better and bright future.
A member of the Kumba Iron Ore’s Ambassadors for Good, which is an Anglo-American employee volunteer body, hopes their partnership with Alex institutions will go a long way towards bettering the literacy standards of the township’s learners.
Nomalizo Dali said the partnership was part of a longstanding policy and belief of Anglo-American to partner with NGOs in various communities to build thriving and sustainable communities.
“This literacy programme is Alexandra is one of such activities that we believe will go a long way to better the living conditions of the young children when they grow up as we seek to give them a decent education that will take them out of the cycle of poverty that they currently find themselves entrapped in,” Dali told Alex News at the launch of the Alex Literacy Programme at the Phuthaditjaba-Qoqizizwe Centre in 17th Avenue.
The centre was built by philanthropist Linda Twala soon after his home on the same site was destroyed in a bomb explosion believed to have been the work of the former apartheid police who disliked his political activities that were being conducted from his home.
“We could not help it but jump to the request to get involved when the Pholoso M Foundation of Pholoso Masinamela approached us. We hope this partnership will bring life-changing situation for the children of this township who are victims of a perpetual cycle of poverty,” Dali said.
She said the partnership resonates around the words of former President Nelson Mandela who often said the best tool to uplift any community and its children was education and ‘we at Anglo-American’s Ambassadors for Good share the same sentiments and hence we jumped at the first proposal for a partnership’.
Thirty volunteers from the Ambassadors for Good will give off their time every Saturday for the coming three months to help better the lives of these children whom she said constitute the future of this country.
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