Changing tomorrow together with Partners for Possibility

United to lead change, 20 strangers grew into a family and celebrated their journey with hugs and tears at Partners for Possibility‘s North Coast Leadership Circle Two celebration last week.

Simbithi Country Club was alive with emotion as the ten principals and ten business partners looked back at what they had achieved with many vowing to continue their partnership into the future.

The circle’s learning process facilitator Terry Dearling said she was immensely proud of this second group.

“We launched this circle 365 days ago in this same room and since then, these 20 people have impacted 6000 pupils on the North Coast,” said Dearling.

“These principals deal with pupils who often are living below the bread line, are orphaned and looked after by siblings. These ten principals care, they are tenacious, humble and always beautifully dressed. The business partners have shown dedication, commitment and have given many hours of their time and together with the principals have discovered how resourceful we can become and that we can call for support and help – something we are not always good at.”

“I would like to thank everyone for showing up, being engaged, vulnerable and ready to learn and share. They have come in with open minds and open hearts so that we could really deal with the soft stuff which is the heart stuff.”

The principals agreed that the lessons they learnt through the programme had empowered them and given them the skills and confidence they needed to take their schools to new heights.

North Coast Agricultural College principal Sunjay Bodasing said Partners for Possibility had given him the best support he has ever received.

“No one has ever given me the support that Partners for Possibility has. Education is key for our country, we need people who are going to feed the nation and if the government is giving land to people, they need to have the skills to make the land work,” said Bodasing, who has been at the school for 31 years and was made principal in June 2017.

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