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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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