2019 will be a very exciting at the Komaticare center. Once again we will be sending money to top up the SPAR Supermarket card, this will help to feed the children over the coming year.
At the end of 2018 , 15 children will be leaving the care center to join the State education system. but six of this years leavers do not have any documentation so they will not be able to go to school and will be turned out onto the street it is dreadfully sad and happens every year. It is also very short sighted . Our original plan was to pay for five of them to go to a local private English school which was going to be very expensive and would be limited to a very few kids. Instead we are going to invest in a new classroom and a qualified teacher to teach a full curriculum in English.
The classroom will be a shipping container professional converted by a specialist company. It will placed in the grounds of the Komaticare center and will soon be able to accommodate sixteen children. The project is being organised by Marietjie Poulson a retired head teacher with many years of experience. Marietjie has been working with the Care center on a voluntary basis for quite a number of years, her husband Jan, a retired farmer acts as the Care center’s handyman and will look after the installation of the new classroom.
