Hantam Community Education Trust
Fact File
The success of this project has been its sustainablility. From its inception 21 years ago as a pre-school for the children of farm workers, the project has grown into
an early childhood development programme;
an effective parenting programme
a school offering classes from Grade R to Grade 9;
youth empowerment training;
health outreach and HIV education and support programme on 28 farms;
an in-service training programme for teachers;
a bursary programme to enable successful students from the area to undergo tertiary education;
and a primary health clinic and pharmacy
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The Grade 9 class attends the Grahamstown Science Festival
UK Big Lottery project comes to an end
The Hantam Trust co-hosted an international conference
ECD practitioner’s writing workshop
Staff member qualifies as a Foetal Alcohol Related Research facilitator
Juanita Meyer attains scholarship to attend Steyn’s Culinary School in Pretoria
Near the centre of South Africa, where the land is flat and the horizon is a day’s drive away, the arid Karoo allows the Hantam Community a home.

You’ve never heard of the people who live here but their hearts beat loudly, and the power of this is felt on desolate farms nearly 100 Km away.

This year, 187 children are enrolled at the Hantam Trust’s extraordinary school, and the clinic, which is open on a Wednesday, treats up to 70 patients a day. This is no simple community project – Hantam is so remote that the nearest city takes a few hours to reach by car. It happened because of an unusual passion and commitment.

Twenty two years on, its survival still calls on unusual passion and commitment. Perhaps it’s now calling on yours.

   

The National Lottery Board
supports the
Hantam Community
Education Trust

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