The Springs Boys High School’s Interact club, together with the Springs Gold Rotary Club, are running their first-ever stationery drive for the 2026 academic year until January 31.

The drive will be collecting items such as pens, pencils, erasers, rulers, highlighters, examination pads, ⁠and school exercise books.

Springs Gold’s head of community services and one of the organisers, Glenda Steyn, told the Springs Advertiser that the drive was inspired by so many deserving and determined kids coming from families that just cannot afford the huge cost of equipping them with all the required stationery.

She said that many teachers and children in need have expressed to the clubs that there is a crisis of children who don’t have all the required stationery and are put at an educational disadvantage.

She also said the Springs Boys’ High Interact club initiated the drive, and with the support of Rotarians in the Rotary Club Springs Gold, they were able to help others with some of the vital needs during this year’s examination period.

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Steyn added that ⁠some of the boys, the teachers and the Rotarians made donations of stationery, pens in particular, to enable the children to write their exams.

With Springs, including KwaThema schools, having 25 high schools, she emphasised that the distribution will have to be prioritised based on the quantity of donations received.

“⁠It would be ideal to be able to give each school a pack for each of the children in need,” she said.

Steyn hopes that the drive grows in the Springs and would like to get the Interact clubs involved annually.

She said that Interact is made up of high school children, and they see the needs around them and are better able to guide Rotary to fill a real need and not react to a perceived need.

“Our country may have many problems, and although Rotary and Interact cannot solve them all, they can, with the help of the community, contribute to ensuring that the next generation of young adults can take advantage of every educational opportunity available to them,” concluded Steyn.

People who are interested in donating to the drive should contact Lauren Webber-Froneman on 082 833 9461, Steyn on 078 288 1041 or the Springs Boys head of the Interact club, Rian Currie, on 066 216 0807, and they will be collecting the donations from donors at the donors’ convenience.

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