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It was march 2007 that i've met Helen George (founder of COSAT ) here in Cape Town. She told me about COSAT and I immediately knew I would go and help them!
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Education in the township. I got involved! The idea started to help with fundraising. I did interviews with children, got more involved and the whole education situation got me there! I realised that helping COSAT wasn't enough for me.
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The stories these COSAT students told me about their previous schools shocked me so much!
60 children in one classroom. Unmotivated teachers. No stimulation from the school. Everyone passes each year in order to have good school results… Lots of depression under students.
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The opportunities that COSAT offers to these students are amazing. In the same time it is so sad realising that only such a small amount of children gets this opportunity. (COSAT selects each year the 50 most intellectual potential students (grade8) from regular township schools (thousand of kids) and prepares them in a 3 year course to go to a technical university. It is great to see what hope does to these students and how motivated and aware they are! …imagine giving this hope to the thousands more…
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It is lovely to see how much positive energy local social workers (for example of COSAT) put into their initiative.
But it depresses me quite a lot that people do not work together! The focus of local social workers is on their own initiative. They even know competition! And often can't get rid of their own pride or hunger for fame or money!
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Let’s work together!
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