Darnall Primary School get a surprise donation

Darnall Primary School had a pleasantly different assembly last Wednesday, October 29th, when The Ilembe Chamber Entrepreneur Competition’s “A Team” visited to donate R3000 towards the school’s small business & entrepreneurship development programme.

The “A Team”, which consists of Jami-Lee Klumper; Joyce Ncanana; Errol Dhaniram; and Bongani Ngcobo, were the winners of a new added feature of this year’s iLembe Entrepreneur Competition, the Deloitte Business Challenge.

The Deloitte Business Challenge was initiated in this year’s iLembe Entrepreneur programme to encourage business problem solving, team cohesion, competitiveness and creativity, especially in a group context, through tackling a business challenge constructed in a way that stimulates as well as challenges programme participants.

The Challenge was to identify ways to eliminate, reduce, or recycle waste being generated from businesses in the Ballito area, with specific focus on the local shopping centres which have a wide variety of waste outputs. The winning solution, judged by Deloitte, would be the one which exhibited the most simplicity, ease of implementation, and greatest impact.

The winning solution was the A Team’s revolutionary “Dream Machine”which would encourage both shopping centres and the public at large to recycle using a reward system, while providing opportunities for employment and income generation for the poor.

The winning group received R3000 to be donated to the small business development/entrepreneurship programme at a school of their choice, the only condition being that the school needed to have an existing small business development programme and needed to be within the municipal boundaries of the iLembe District Municipality.

“We chose Darnall Primary School in order to support their exceptional entrepreneur programme, which teaches children from as early as grade 1 to 6 the use of money and encourages entrepreneurial creativity in grade 7’s through their annual Grade 7 Entrepreneur Day and market activities” said Errol Dhaniram, one of the A Team Members.

Mr Nel, the Darnall Primary School Headmaster, was delighted by the donation, which will be used to expand their entrepreneurial development programme.

The winning team’s members also won R500 each, courtesy of Deloitte.