Miss Vicky's Children's Education Fund: Press Release 2012

Mission Statement

The mission of Miss Vicky's Children's Education Fund is to finance the airfare from NYC to Cape Town, South Africa for at least one American teacher to donate his/her tutoring services each summer for several weeks to the children and mothers in Khayelitsha Township District "C" and to provide classroom instruction in the local public school to facilitate a learning environment focused on the improvement of overall literacy. Any additional funds raised will be used to establish a dedicated school library for "C" District. Eventually the hope is to provide each child with a school back pack filled with school supplies and their own reading book during the Holidays.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Press Release 2012

Non-Profit Sends Third Teacher to Cape Town, South Africa

Khayelitsha Township eagerly awaits skill set of USA teacher

We are pleased to announce the upcoming departure of our third volunteer teacher, Laura Harrington, to Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, South Africa. Laura is a reading specialist in Council Rock School District of Bucks County, PA. In addition to volunteering several weeks of her time to educate children in Khayelitsha, fellow teachers in many Council Rock Elementary Schools held dress down days to raise money for the shipping of donated textbooks and reading books in anticipation of the building of a school library. Previously Tanya Anderson, Welch Elementary School Guidance Counselor and Caroline Kerns, St. Joseph’s University graduate offered their teaching skills to Khayelitsha’s children.

Assisting with loading books at a Council Rock’s Goodnoe Elementary School include Joy McClendon (Director of Elementary Education/Curriculum Services), Sue Kacergis, Patricia Erickson (RELA Curriculum Coordinator, K-6), Rick Plassio, Nicole Crawford (Principal at Goodnoe), Mike Hellman, Ellen Wilson, Laura Harrington, Holland resident and Temple University student Julie Erickson, Churchville resident and CR South Senior Ross McDaniel and Holy Ghost Prep student and Ivyland resident, Christopher Marra.

Council Rock School District generously donated 21,000 primary school level language arts textbooks which will be shipped via ocean container to Vusamanzi Primary School in Khayelitsha.

Holy Ghost Prep students Brian Nachtburn, Christopher Marra and Joe O’Connor filled the first truck load from Welch Elementary, Churchville Elementary and Richboro Elementary.

To follow Laura's daily activities during her stay please visit,

http://missvickyschildrenseducation.blogspot.com/.

A fundraiser to enjoy South African wines and cheeses will be held locally later this summer.

If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Laura, please email Debra at missvickyseducationfund@gmail.com.

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Vusamanzi Primary School

Vuzamanzi Primary is in Site C in the Khayelitsha informal settlement. First established in 1985, the school has served the community as a community hall for meetings and a hiding place from police raids at the height of the apartheid era as well as a place to educate the youth. Over 75% of the parent community of Vuzamanzi Primary are unemployed and illiterate, many eeking out a living in the informal sector where they sell fruit and sweets at the taxi rank and station. Naturally, there is a high percentage of non-fee payment by these parents who simply cannot afford school fees and the school has now been identified as a pilot school for the no payment of school fees in the Western Province.