Alchemy Project Highlights
(Updated: April 2022)
Ditholwana Ts’a Rena Community Development Trust
Recent Social Investment Achievement Areas
Education
Agriculture/Food Security
Digital Connectivity
Social Welfare & Infrastructure
Water
Health
Highlights of Ditholwana Ts’a Rena Community Development Trust
Ntoampe Secondary School Admin Block
Twickenham
WI-FI installation
Mogalakwena
Improved sanitation in Schools
Mogalakwena
Graduation of ECD Practitioners after NQF Level 4 ECD Program
Twickenham and Mogalakwena
Ditholwana Ts’a Rena Community Development Trust -
Key Sectors: Education (ECD), Water & Sanitation, Local Business Development and Digital Connectivity and technology
- Training of 42 ECD Practitioners on NQF Level 4 ECD Program
- Training of 47 ECD Practitioners on NQF Level 4 ECD Program
- Training of NQF Level 5 ECD Practitioners
- Implementation of the Count Family Math’s Program to upskill teachers in Foundation phase -14 Schools (7 Mapela
- and 7 Mokopane) for 2030 Children and 17 teachers and 14 Tutors
- Training 52 Community health workers to work in 22 Health Centres around Mapela and Mokopane
- Empowerment of the community through digital enablement by deploying a WI-FI network and supplying internet – 7 schools, three Health Centers and 1 tribal authority
- Provision of Programing and Coding Training to 154 Young learners
- Promoting food security and hunger alleviation by the implementation of food tunnels Program in 57 ECD Centres in Mapela which benefited a total of 1524 Children
- Assisted 1000 families within the Mapela & Mokopane areas with food parcels for three months – April to June 2021
- Extended to provision of food parcels and Covid protection packs to 57 ECD Centres to prepare them to re-open after easing from Alert Level 4 to 3
- Upgrading School sanitation facilities – (4) Mapela and (3) Mokopane with 2860 beneficiaries across the schools
- Bohlapa Kolobe School Upgrade – 10 Mobile Classrooms
- Mabualea Primary School Upgrade – 4 Mobile Classrooms
- Silo School for the Blind – Library and Computer centre
- Mokopane Tribal Office Upgrade
- Water provision for six Mapela communities – 50kl of water per family targeting 6600 people
- Installation of sporting facilities @ 2 Schools with water purification facilities (AB Makapan and Mmantutle School)
Outcomes and Early Impact
- Improved learning and teaching conditions
- Improved hygienic health conditions
- Improvement in the capacity of health system to deliver enhanced quality service to beneficiaries
- Commercial participation of local enterprises during the construction phases
- Hunger alleviation/reduction and promotion of food security
- Income generation/upgrade through linking local agricultural enterprises to markets
- Non-funded (by SD) ECD centres ability to supplement food at the schools
- Increased access to digital connectivity
- Additionally, an ICT Centre is under development to leverage the WIFI internet asset
- Creation of temporary jobs and supported jobs during the implementation of all social projects
