MySchool care about the future teachers of South Africa so they launched a fund that will help learners achieve their teaching dreams through scholarships.
Teachers are an important part of the future. They educate the youth who will become our future leaders and innovators. However we are heading towards a shortage of teachers in South Africa.
About 15 000 new teachers qualify every year in SA, but we need 22 000 in order to compensate for retiring teachers and a growing number of school-going children. A staggering 74% of our current teacher workforce is over 40 years of age, and only 8% of them are between 20 to 29 years. This means we don’t have anywhere near the number of new teachers that we need to replace the teachers who will be retiring in the next 10 to 20 years.
MySchool would like to change this by offering funding to matriculants that show a real passion for teaching but lack the funding needed to study it at a tertiary level. They plan to support those with a ‘Dream2Teach’.
MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet, one of South Africa’s largest fundraising programmes, is launching a new fund Dream2Teach, aimed at investing in teacher education. The fund is aligned to MySchool’s belief that education is the gift of a lifetime, where every additional qualified teacher has an impact on hundreds of future learners to come.
The fund will provide aspiring teachers with support and funding from the beginning of their studies until the day they graduate. The students selected for the scholarship should be passionate about education, teaching should be their life calling.
The only thing MySchool requires from the public to make these dreams come true, is to select the ‘Dream2Teach’ fund as a beneficiary. That way whenever a person swipes their MySchool card the fund grows.
“For South Africans education is gold,”
“It is a key to the door of a bright future, and by creating more quality teachers we will not only be impacting on the individual scholarship recipient, but on many generations of learners. If quality education matters to you, get a card and swipe for the Dream2Teach Scholarship Fund to support SA’s future teachers.” – Helene Brand, Marketing and CSI Manager for MySchool.
You can sign up for a card on their website here, it is easy, free and you benefit three charities just by swiping!
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