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Social investment
The Datatec Education and Technology Trust was established in March 2000. To date the total grant allocation from the company amounts to R20 million ensuring the Group’s ongoing investment in the country.
The principal ideal of the Trust is to grow SA’s mathematics, science and technology talent, with a primary focus on providing sustainable infrastructure dedicated to developing these skills. The Group believes that this development, at grassroots level, provides a platform from which SA can build its expertise in fields such as mathematics, science and technology.
To date, the Trust has invested in four community-based projects:
- The Centre for Innovation, established at Hilton College in the Kwa Zulu-Natal Midlands, provides the surrounding community with mathematics, science, entrepreneurship and computer skills training and is utilised by many schools as well as Protec, a national organisation involved in technology skills training within disadvantaged communities.
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The Maths Centre, a national organisation dedicated to the upliftment of the standard of mathematics, science and technology teaching in government schools. The Maths Centre has put together a vibrant and practical hub for learning these three disciplines using ICT resources. It serves as a resource base for the empowerment of teachers of mathematics, science and technology and all the courses are accredited with several universities ensuring professional development of teachers.
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The Siyakhula Bridging School, situated in an economically depressed area between Ivory Park and Ebony Park, teaches basic computer literacy skills to local area residents from a refurbished property that has been turned into an Education and Community Centre. Many of the residents who were previously unemployed have been able to find employment as a result of their newly acquired skills.
- Education Alive is part of Applied Scholastics International and provides training to teachers, educators, parents, learners and college students in disadvantaged communities across the country. They have established the Education Alive Training Centre in Cape Town. This centre will provide tuition to learners who get poor marks in maths, science and technical subjects, it also provides literacy to non-literate individuals.
- The Maharishi Invincibility Institute in Johannesburg, which applies Consciousness-Based Education to benefit South Africa’s youth, especially those from the historically disadvantaged communities. The Institute offers access to education in business, computer, and leadership skills, along with development of full mental potential through Transcendental Meditation. Invincible Outsourcing is a new Contact Centre or Call Centre on the Institute premises, manned by students, and described as a ‘ground-breaking innovation to educate South Africa’s youth out of poverty. Invincible Outsourcing will provide the students with work experience while they study, and will help bring financial self-sufficiency not only to the students who participate but also to the Institute as a whole.
If you would like more information about the Datatec Educational and Technology Trust or you would like to submit a proposal for sponsorship, please download the attached PDF document and complete the questionnaire provided.
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