Project description:
To purchase equipment and secure funding to cover the running costs of the future Ithemba Labantwana Rainbow Resource and Training Center, which will operate as:
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A preschool bringing together annually over 500 preschoolers from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds and from distant rural areas.
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A professional training center educating 80 township preschool principals and childcare practitioners annually.
- A seminar center generating funds by renting the facilities.
- A business center generating funds by selling business services (fax, copier etc.)
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The center will stimulate township community economy by employing township community builders (to build the center) and by creating a business and a seminar center.
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Project Justification:
The Ithemba Labantwana / Ikamva Labantu program has secured the ownership of a plot of land in Gugulethu, Cape Town. Funds have been allocated to build a model preschool (building is near completion) and a library for the benefit of preschoolers and a training center for the preschool principals and their assistants. The training center will include a business center and seminar center, offering on-site accommodation for rural educare practitioners attending courses. Even though the Ithemba Labantwana / Ikamva Labantu program will rent out the seminar center and sell business services to amortize its running costs, funds are needed to complete the project.
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Project Costs:
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Model preschool equipment
(chairs, tables, cooking equipment, mats, blankets etc)
| $7,500 |
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Training and Seminar Center
(audio-visual equipment, chairs, furniture)
| $8,500 |
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Business Center equipment
(photo-copier, fax machine, computer)
| $7,000 |
| $12,000 |
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One year of running costs
(23 employees, operation costs, petrol)
| $100,000 |
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