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The Eastern Cape is facing huge challenges to education - but we never give up hope, and never give up helping. So it's good to hear what our past clients are up to!
We were very happy to receive an email from University student Samkele Monikali recently. Samkele joined our community library when he was in primary school. As a young boy he was constantly in the library, reading, helping, learning and sometimes having fun with his friends. When he went to high school he joined Scitech, our maths and science enrichment programme, and passed Grade 12 with flying colours.
Now Samkele is at university, studying Statistical Science. You go, Samkele!
His letter to our librarian, Angela, is below, with a picture of Samkele and friends in the ITEC library.
Hi Angela,
I'm writing to say thank you to ITEC for all that they have done for me for the past years I was there.
From the first time I walked into the library in 2006 there has been nothing but helpful assistance from the institution towards my education. I am currently studying toward my Bachelor of Science in applied Statistical Science at the University of Transkei (now known as the Walter Sisulu University) and would like to just say thank you for every single thing.
Please pass on the message to Scitech. The tutorials they gave me for the past two years helped me so so much and I am truly grateful for this. All the best with the library and again thank you. 
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Putting our money where our mouth is |
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At ITEC, we believe in giving everything we've got to our non-profit development work. We don't expect our generous funders to do anything we don't do - so we help to raise money for our early childhood, school and community development projects through our Training Centre.
Our Training Centre team offers SAQA accredited end-user computer training, the International Computer Driving Licence, and the Cisco IT Essentials course. We use the latest software - Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 - to ensure that our students get the most up-to-date training.
We also offer tailor-made courses on a range of topics for local business and government departments. These include, for example, Project Management, Customer Care, and HIV and AIDS courses.
The income we make from our very reasonable course fees goes straight back into our early childhood development projects, literacy and school programmes, and community development projects.
If you'd like to know more about our courses for yourself or your staff, please contact us at +27 43 7438333, or email us at
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Please contact us if you'd like to join us in contributing towards our non-profit work. All donations are tax deductible. |
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'A house without books is like a room without windows' |
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90% of schools i n the Eastern Cape do not have libraries.
Yet we know that access to reading resources makes a huge difference to children's education and life chances. This is particularly the case in many Eastern Cape homes, where children often have little access to reading materials.
In 2010, over 5 thousand children, youth and adults made use of our community library. We helped 3 disadvantaged schools to set up libraries, and trained 290 teachers and principals to manage and sustain libraries.
In the first quarter of 2011, we'll be launching our adoptalibrary campaign, thanks to the generosity of First National Battery, our initiating funder for this wonderful new programme.
The adoptalibrary campaign links donors with disadvantaged schools that are passionate about getting their children to read. Please contact us if you would like to donate money, good quality and relevant reading books, furniture, or your time and energy to raising literacy levels in the Eastern Cape!
We also have Early Childhood Development, community development, school and skills development programmes. If you would like to know how YOU can help, or if you want to know how our donors, partners and friends helped to improve the lives of over 12.5 thousand children, women and men in the past year, please download the ITEC Update 2010.
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Thank you for a wonderful Work Party |
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 As a non-profit organisation working in education and development, ITEC is more used to helping others than being helped. On Saturday, though, things were turned around. A group of wonderful people gave their precious time and effort, or donated money, paint, and cleaning materials to refurbish our beautiful old buildings. We all had a wonderful day together, cleaning, scraping, sorting and tidying, followed by a shared lunch. The rain, far from hindering us, was considered a great blessing. Thank you, everyone, for your generosity and kindness.
If you'd like to see more photographs of the great Work Party day, please visit our Facebook page. |
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