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School Support

Change a school and you change every learner who passes through it.

Long-term partnerships with struggling rural high schools — turnaround strategies, learner support, sport and infrastructure development — designed to lift the whole institution, not one cohort.

The challenge

Individual interventions fade when the school around them stays under-resourced. Kodumela's approach is to target high schools that are struggling and work with them on turnaround strategies, testing what actually works before formalising it into a programme.

The programme model

How it runs, stage by stage.

  1. 01

    Identify need

    The specific problems a school faces determine which programmes Kodumela runs there.

  2. 02

    Match support

    Partnerships with companies and institutions of higher learning supply people and resources.

  3. 03

    Deliver learning

    Interventions run inside the school's own calendar and structures.

  4. 04

    Expose opportunity

    Better matric results, and better-prepared learners who succeed beyond school.

  5. 05

    Follow progress

    Matric pass rates are tracked at school and circuit level over years.

What participants experience

  • A partnership measured in years, not a single visit
  • Programmes chosen for the school's actual problems
  • Alumni returning to teach in their own former classrooms
  • Results reported openly to the school and community

Typical activities

  • Long-term school partnerships, beginning with Nakedi Secondary School in 2008
  • Turnaround strategies designed around each school's specific problems
  • Learner support, career guidance, sport and leadership development
  • School infrastructure development

Verified impact

What we can prove.

39% → 76%Nakedi Secondary School matric pass rate2013 · annual

The pass rate at Kodumela's founding partner school roughly doubled after a winter school programme run by its own alumni.

Reported by Kodumela in “Matric Results 2013”. Kodumela has partnered with Nakedi Secondary School since 2008.

61%Bahananwa circuit matric pass rate2013 · annual

Circuit-wide pass rate after a year of joint work between Kodumela and the Bahananwa circuit.

Reported by Kodumela in “Matric Results 2013”.

52% → 67%Seotlong circuit matric pass rate2013 · annual

Seotlong circuit improved by fifteen percentage points in a single year.

Reported by Kodumela in “Matric Results 2013”. Mphahlele circuit reached 70% in the same year.

Related reading

Results

Matric Results 2013

Nakedi Secondary School improved from a 39% pass rate to 76% after a winter school run by its own alumni. Three circuits improved.

Ways to support Schools

This programme runs on people and funding.

Partner as an institutionRefer a schoolFund infrastructureSupport with professional services

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