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We connect rural learners to knowledge, direction, opportunity and the confidence to lead.

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What Kodumela changes

We do not only prepare learners for exams. We prepare them to see a future they can enter.

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Educate4Depth

Extra teaching, at the moment it changes a result.

Who it is for
Grades 10–12
Delivery
Three cycles a year, since 2013

How it runs

  1. 01Winter School — the anchor programme, running since 2013
  2. 02Summer School — early exam preparation, so gaps surface at the start of the year
  3. 03Spring School — final revision close to the examinations
  4. 04Subject matter experts brought in for mathematics, science and accounting
28University tutors in one winter school2014
Enter Educate4DepthStoryLearner Enrichment Programmes 2017

The Programme Observatory

Five interventions. One machine.

Each programme answers a specific point where rural learners lose access — and each one feeds the next. Select a programme to open it.

Programme ObservatoryCurrently viewing: Science & Career Expo
A professional from De Beers speaking to learners in a classroom at a Kodumela Science & Career Expo
Grades 11–12Annual, since 2011active

A learner cannot choose a future they have never seen.

Kodumela's flagship exhibition, running annually since 2011. Corporates, government agencies, universities and NGOs bring their people to rural circuits so that Grade 11 and 12 learners can meet working professionals, see the careers their subjects lead to, and ask direct questions.

Who it is for
Grades 11–12
Format
Annual expo, hosted per circuit
Next activity
Science & Career Expo — next edition · Date to be announced
Latest story
Science and Career Expo 2017

The learner journey

From a Grade 10 subject choice to someone who lifts the next cohort.

GRADE 10

Discovery

The challengeSubject choices are made that quietly open or close every later door.
Kodumela's interventionEducate4Depth enrichment and career assessment make the choice an informed one.
What opens nextA subject set that keeps the learner's strongest futures open.
GRADE 11

Direction

The challengeInterest must become intention — a field, an institution, a plan.
Kodumela's interventionThe Science & Career Expo turns career names into people a learner has met.
What opens nextA shortlist of study programmes and the marks they require.
GRADE 12

Preparation

The challengeOne year to convert potential into marks that open tertiary study.
Kodumela's interventionSummer, Winter and Spring schools taught by tutors who sat the same exams.
What opens nextA matric result that qualifies rather than merely passes.
TERTIARY

Access

The challengeArrival is not the same as belonging. First-generation students face it alone.
Kodumela's interventionA network of Kodumela alumni already studying at seven universities.
What opens nextA student who knows the way back to lift others.
BEYOND

Leadership

The challengeOne graduate can remain an exception — or become an example.
Kodumela's interventionAlumni return as tutors, organisers and exhibitors, with leadership training behind them.
What opens nextThe next cohort starts less alone. This is how Kodumela grows.

Impact

Impact is not a number. It is what a number allowed to happen next.

Every figure we publish carries its source, its period and how it was counted.

Impact Console

Reach

How many learners the work has touched.

9 verified figures
Learners reached by the Expo6 000+
Nakedi Secondary School matric pass rate39% → 76%
Bahananwa circuit matric pass rate61%
Seotlong circuit matric pass rate52% → 67%
University tutors in one winter school28
Learners in enrichment programmes500+
Learners at the Maleboho Expo900+
Learners given career assessments60
Limpopo circuits served5

Flagship programme

Science & Career Expo

A learner cannot choose a future they have never seen.

01

Science

Exhibitors and professionals learners can question directly.

02

Engineering

Exhibitors and professionals learners can question directly.

03

Technology

Exhibitors and professionals learners can question directly.

04

Health

Exhibitors and professionals learners can question directly.

05

Finance

Exhibitors and professionals learners can question directly.

06

Further study

Exhibitors and professionals learners can question directly.

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Stories from the field

Reporting the work as it happens.

Programme

Science and Career Expo 2017

The expo has now directly impacted over 6 000 learners, with De Beers, the Geological Society of South Africa, Lesego Platinum and Spar backing the 2017 editions.

8 November 20173 min read
Programme

Learner Enrichment Programmes 2017

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Career Assessment Launch

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Maleboho Science and Career Expo 2016

2 min read
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Events

What is coming, and what has been.

VenueTo be confirmed, Limpopo
Who should attendGrade 11–12 learners, educators, exhibitors and sponsors
RegistrationInterest list open — schools, exhibitors and sponsors

The next edition of Kodumela's flagship expo, hosted across the Limpopo circuits. Register interest and we will notify your school, or your organisation, when the date and venue are confirmed.

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VenuePartner schools, Bahananwa and Maleboho circuits, Limpopo
Who should attendGrade 10–12 learners; university students volunteering as tutors
RegistrationTutor applications and school enquiries welcome

The anchor Educate4Depth cycle. University students — many of them alumni of the same schools — return to teach mathematics, science and the wider curriculum through the winter break.

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VenueBahananwa, Seotlong and Mphahlele circuits, Limpopo
Who should attendGrade 11–12 learners
RegistrationArchived event

Backed by De Beers, the Geological Society of South Africa, Lesego Platinum and Spar. Average attendance across editions exceeded a thousand learners.

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VenueMaleboho circuit, Limpopo
Who should attendGrade 11–12 learners from 12 schools
RegistrationArchived event

The expo's first edition in the Maleboho circuit, attended by over 900 learners from twelve schools.

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VenueBahananwa, Seotlong and Mphahlele circuits, Limpopo
Who should attendGrade 11–12 learners
RegistrationArchived event

The fifth annual expo. Over 900 learners and 13 organisations in Bahananwa; over 1 000 learners in Seotlong and Mphahlele.

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The Living Archive

The archive continues beyond the screen.

5 images · 2013–2017Educate4Depth in session6 images · 2014–2017The Expo, in photographs1 image · 2014–2016The volunteersOpen the archiveBrowse by programme, year and event →

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