Life comes full circle for north Durban educator
Domino’s nutrition programme operates both north and south of the city, collaborating with the ECD programme to provide learners with a daily nutritious porridge breakfast and a high-protein lunch, ensuring physical and academic school-readiness, and to collect data on stunting, wasting and obesity. The NPO provides meals for Grade 12 learners in the study-heavy pre-exam matric camps and during matric finals.
IT’S been two weeks since the world commemorated World Education Day (January 24) when people like Nobuhle Ndlovu were celebrated for their contribution to the sector.
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Her story started at The Domino Foundation where she first joined the organisation’s life skills programme and girls’ club before being a recipient of the Cradle-to-Career programme.
During her Grade 12 year Ndlovu was also a beneficiary of the nutrition programme, receiving sandwiches throughout her year. She then received a bursary for a B.Ed degree and is now a teacher at her alma mater, Amaoti No. 3 Secondary School.
“Domino has played a vital role in keeping me focused on my dreams. I can do this for the new generation of learners,” she said.
Cradle-to-Career has seven programmes which impacts 12 000 lives daily, taking its beneficiaries from disadvantage to opportunity.
Domino’s marketing manager, Karen Brokensha, says that foundational education, literacy, life skills, career choices and access are critical in what the organisation provides and facilitates.
“Our Babies’ Home caters for the children’s early childhood development. This is also our ECD programme’s aim through ‘active learning’ input for effective, holistic pre-school education in the 51 crèches with which we partner. Business-training empowers the centres to become sustainable small businesses, and instruction in paperless administration through technology is key, particularly significant as the theme of the UN’s International Education Day 2025 is ‘AI and Education’,” she said.
The life skills programme grows learners’ self-competence and confidence to develop healthy, competitive spirit and sound leadership skills.
“With the skills development programme, the advantages of skills-based training far outweigh those of costly tertiary education and our focus has shifted to investing more fully in fewer candidates. This saw 80 unemployed youth added to databases for enrolment into learnerships in 2024,” she added.
Contact Brokensha on 031 110 7030 or email marketing@domino.org.za for more information.
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