Business donates to needy learners
TAFELKOP – Needy pupils at Ramanare Primary School at Tafelkop Stadium View outside Groblersdal were delighted to receive new school uniform from the business community.
The small scale primary school, which uses mobile classrooms, was established in 2016 and only accommodates 220 learners.
It is one of the schools in the province which still needs intervention of the Limpopo Department of Education to ensure teaching and learning runs desirably under proper infrastructure.
Bumazi Properties and Costa Zervas Projects have for the past two consecutive years been conducting their back-to-school campaign at the school in their efforts to reach out to the needy rural learners.
Bumazi Properties’ Mtshelwa Kabini said in 2021 they donated stationery for Grades 1 and 2 through a very small budget.
Kabini said they decided that they needed to give back to the community on a larger scale this year as compared to previously.
“Helping our future leaders through getting them the correct tools to build a better tomorrow, we donated A5 quad margins books, pencils, glue sticks and colouring pencils,” said Kabini.
He added that this year, they wanted to do more for Ramanare Primary School and also show that their community came first.
“We asked the school principal to provide us with a list of learners that needed school uniform. We received a list of 11 children in need and bought them uniform to the value of R500 each which included a pair of school shoes, two pairs of grey socks, two white shirts, 2 boys’ pairs of trousers, and two girls’ skirts. They were eight boys and three girls,” said Kabini.
He added that they also requested the principal to provide them a stationary list of all grades and were able to purchase 240 x A4 exercise books, 240 x A4 Irish Maths books, 240 x HB pencils, 240 x rulers, 200 x erasers, 200 metal sharpeners, 200 x scissors, 200 x glue sticks which were donated together with the school uniform.
“We sincerely hope that all the students will use this donation to study hard in good times and grow into useful talents in our society,” concluded Kabini.
