News
Kaross Foundation Newsletter, April 2023
Newsletter An impactful start to 2023. We are hopeful that every effort during the first term from teachers, learners, parents, partners- and friends…
April 1, 2023
Newsletter An impactful start to 2023. We are hopeful that every effort during the first term from teachers, learners, parents, partners- and friends…
Newsletter This year without a doubt ended on a high note! Not only have we achieved our objective to assist and empower principals, teachers…
Kaross Foundation believes in the power of education as a key enabler for both social and economic success. For this reason, the foundation…
An exhibition celebrating the youth of N’wamitwa and Xihoko, close
to Tzaneen and their vision for the future is currently being hosted by The Kaross Foundation in Letsitele until the end of April.
Groep 91 Uitvoer, a family-owned citrus producer from Letsitele has been successfully growing and exporting lemons, grapefruit and Valencia oranges across the globe…
From 28 March to 6 April 2023, the inspiring Kaross Foundation is curat- ing an exhibition of artworks created by secondary school learners from N’wamitwa and Xihoko, close to Tzaneen.
Shamein Ngomana, ECD practitioner at Pfuka Rixile, a daycare centre partnering with Kaross Foundation, shares her vision for the centre and the advantages of sending a child to daycare. We also speak about reading to your baby and young children and the disadvantages of exposing your child to TV at an early age.
Reading empowers! Librarians from our newly built local library in Runnymede informed listeners of all the advantages of using the library. We discussed the importance of reading and reading with your child from a young age. Parents play a crucial role in improving their children’s reading skills, it is not only the work of the school teacher.
Bullying is a common occurrence in schools, what can we do when we are being bullied and what are the motives behind bullying. Connection and allowing a child to explore builds confidence.
“A standout feature of the past year has been the continued growth in trust and transparency between all role players. It serves as a solid foundation from which we can continue working towards our stated objective of making a real and lasting positive impact in the educational outcomes of our partner schools and ECD centres.” Jan-Louis Pretorius
In the continued pursuit of our stated mission – working for real impact – our theme for the year was built around the slogan of “Come closer”. This theme was selected based on our strong belief in the Kaross Foundation’s ability to bring together a family of likeminded stakeholders, service providers and partner schools, forming a powerful alliance working towards sustainable change in the educational outcomes of children in our community…
“With unrestricted access and the need for functional schooling systems post-pandemic greater than ever, our Kaross Foundation team worked with…