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If single family units found it difficult to adjust to life under lockdown, one can only imagine the enormity of the task that awaited South Africa’s non-profits.
With so many lives dependent on their operations, these organisations were not only required to adapt their models to satisfy the existing need, but had to do so under exceptionally trying economic circumstances.
It required instant and innovative thinking to meet the considerable challenges.
Despite the overwhelming odds stacked against them, organisations like the Tomorrow Trust, which since 2005 has mobilised investors to reduce the inequality of educational opportunities faced by orphaned and vulnerable children, excelled.
Leon Roets is Head of the Department of Physical Sciences at Redhill School in Sandton, and is completing his Master’s in Educational Management and Leadership from the University of Johannesburg. He also teaches International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Chemistry and Advanced Programme Physics. The views expressed here are his own.
Bill Gates, the World Health Organization (WHO), and epidemiologists globally warn that Covid-19 will not be the last pandemic that we will face. As before Covid-19, Gates has warned global leaders once more that they should not only be fighting the current pandemic, but should be preparing for the next.
stock up with plenty of enthusiasm for school this year, and all the challenges it will bring, whether it’s at the dining-room table or back in the classroom. (iStock) If there’s one thing 2020 taught us, it’s to be wary of planning too far ahead, says Philippa Brinkmann, head of learning support at Rustenburg Girls Junior School in Cape Town.
It’s a worrying wrinkle in what should be a time of excitement and anticipation, as children prepare for the 2021 academic year – now starting in February, due to Covid-19-linked postponements.
First-term essentials Buy only what’s absolutely essential for getting through the first term of 2021, says Brinkmann, who’s also mother to a 12-year-old schoolgoer.