SECUNDA – Sasol handed over laboratory equipment to Hoërskool Oosterland on Monday, 7 December.
This is part of Sasol’s strategic intent to support the education fraternity.
The donated items will enhance teaching and learning of science subjects at Hoërskool Oosterland. Ms Rethabile Ndjibu Sasol Energy Operations’ manager of social impact, said: “Learners will be able to conduct prescribed experiments that are essential for the conceptual knowledge of science and contribute to their assessment marks.”
The equipment Sasol donated, include four trollies and rack sets, six electric circuit boards, six Grade 12 organic chemistry sets (used in creating Esters), six Grade 12 internal resistance sets, six Grade 11 intermolecular forces, six Grade 10 electrostatics, 25 laboratory coats, 25 safety goggles, two digital balances and four light ray kits.
Ms Ndjibu said Sasol has over the years supported education from the early childhood development phase up to tertiary level.
Sasol has provided schools in the fenceline communities with infrastructure support for early childhood development centres and schools to address the issue of overcrowded classrooms.
Other initiatives done by Sasol include Grade 12 revision programmes to prepare learners for their final examinations, Grade 12 awards ceremonies to acknowledge learners who have performed well, support to technical schools; supporting schools by donating science laboratory equipment, affording schools opportunities to access mobile science laboratories and Sasol Techno X Science Exhibition to showcase different careers that learners can pursue.
“Sasol in partnership with the Department of Education has been working to benefit communities around our operations and beyond, in terms of improving learners results and offering learnerships as well as bursaries to pursue their tertiary studies,” said Ms Ndjibu.
“However due to cost constraints the bursaries are suspended.
“We hope that the equipment we have given, will provide the opportunity for science to come alive by making the theory a reality when the learners do the experiments in class.”
