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The Iqraa Trust, a humanitarian organisation that

has partnered with MUT in a number of schools

empowerment and disaster relief programmes,

sponsored R25 000. The Iqraa Trust was represented

by its chairman, Dr Mahmoud Youssef Baker, who has

become a benefactor of MUT school empowerment

projects such as literacy, aid relief during the storms

and support for Maths education.

Gem School Wear has been partnering with MUT since

2017 in both its COE and other school empowerment

projects. They have sponsored laptops, school

uniforms, gift vouchers, and in March this year

provided a R20 000 sponsorship for the top achieving

and most improved schools, presented by Managing

Director, Mr Idris Pandor. “The social problems our

country is facing are crying out aloud, especially in

the education sector. As a company we believe in the

notion ‘GIVE AS YOU EARN’ as a token of appreciation

to our valued customers,” said Mr Pandor.

Each year the COE organisers work hard to spread

the net to more corporate sponsors, and this year they

were thrilled to welcome new sponsors on board to

support matric excellence in Umlazi Township. One

of these was Vodacom South Africa, which funded

tablets for five Accounting teachers, as well as

providing fifteen hampers to acknowledge principals’

strong leadership of their respective schools – a key

factor in the outstanding school results. Edwin Lebuso,

Marketing Specialist: Youth at Vodacom, has already

identified a number of projects for future collaboration

with MUT, such as youth and women empowerment,

rolling out e-learning platforms at schools in the

township, and sharing a number of Vodacom youth

benefit programmes with MUT students.

To support the teaching of science and contribute to

improving results in this core subject, JVL Lab Supplies

sponsored science laboratory supplies. These were

presented by Jeremy Nagiah to Sishosonke High

School which improved their results from 40,63% to

90% in 2019.

A teacher from Velabahleke, middle, with Mr Idris Pandor, second from left, and MUT and DoE officials

“Each year the COE organisers

work hard to spread the net

to more corporate sponsors,

and this year they were

thrilled to welcome new

sponsors on board to support

matric excellence in Umlazi

Township.”

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