Beyond the Classroom Quarterly Newsletter
The Learning Trust is coordinating a national, ecosystemic and multi-stakeholder effort to tackle the devastating learning losses that have resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic.
2022 Annual Report
The Learning Trust’s 2022 annual report reflects on our journey in the first year of our three-year strategy. We’re proud to share our lessons, opportunities and accomplishments in pursuit of our ultimate goal: to increase the number of young people in underserved communities with the requisite competencies to succeed beyond their school age. We believe … Read more
Building thriving and sustainable communities one organization at a time
Written by Malibongwe Nkunkuma, TLT Programmme Officer Supporting emerging organizations is one of the most fundamental aspects in our quest to build thriving and sustainable communities. As the backbone of any nation, communities comprise of social units which share commonality such as place, norms, values, and identity, but more crucially they are sites of individual … Read more
A proposal to upskill the 81% of Grade 4 children in South Africa who can’t read
The recently published 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) found that 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa can’t read for meaning. This is up from 78% in 2016, largely on the back of the Covid-19 pandemic. The study showed that Grade 4s lost the equivalent of 80% of a year of learning between … Read more
Beyond the Classroom Quarterly Newsletter
The Learning Trust is coordinating a national, ecosystemic and multi-stakeholder effort to tackle the devastating learning losses that have resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Coalitions: Working Together Across Sectors to Scale Up Impact
Written by Charlene Petersen-Voss, Special Projects Manager and Sibongile Khumalo, Executive Director of The Learning Trust The power of collective action The world is riddled with daunting and complex challenges that no single person or organisation can claim to know the solutions to. From poverty and food insecurity to climate change and catastrophic pandemics, these … Read more
DGMT Learning Lunch Podcast- Scaling Up Social Employment
A podcast about social employment and the role played by civil society organizations in driving social employment.
Beyond the Classroom Quarterly 3
In October we celebrated the annual #LightsOnAfterschool campaign for the third time in South Africa. The global initiative which began in the U.S. aims to help raise awareness of the importance of After School Programmes (ASPs) and their tremendous impact on children’s lives.
Literacy is the foundation: #InternationalLiteracyMonth
This September, The Learning Trust shines the spotlight on three literacy based organisations on their programmes to recover learning losses that were created by school closures during the pandemic.
#YoungWomenInSTEM: Khanyisa Dube
To celebrate Women’s Month, The Learning Trust shines the spotlight on young women who either study(ied) or work(ed) in any of the STEM disciplines.