By Lou Billett | Chairperson
Dear family, friends, supporters and donors,
You all know that African Angels is important to me, and many of you have joined me in the past by donating to and supporting African Angels. We are relentless in providing the parents of Chintsa with a school for their children. The inequality in South Africa is staggering.
If you don't have money, your child goes to a public school, and in our area, this means you receive a substandard level of education. African Angels disrupts the inequality that poor schooling creates.
The end of the financial year is looming. For South Africa it is 28 February. Perhaps that's not your end of financial year, but paying tax is one certainty in life, wherever in the world you live. Donating to African Angels can help you minimise the tax you pay, at the same time as educating a child.
I need your help. I am directly seeking donations for African Angels, AND asking you to forward this letter to 5 of your friends and asking them to donate to us.
Here are three reasons why I hope you will support my request:
1. The majority of South African children cannot read.
78% of Grade 4 learners cannot read for meaning in any language (PIRLS 2016)
2. The majority of South African children cannot perform basic math.
61% of Grade 5 learners could not add and subtract whole numbers, have no understanding of multiplication by one-digit numbers and cannot solve simple word problems, i.e. they cannot do basic math. (TIMSS-N 2015)
3. Nearly half of South African schools are wastelands.
45% of South African schools could be described as “cognitive wastelands”, where no single learner can read and make inferences.
For the children of Chintsa, African Angels is the only chance they have to get a quality primary school education giving them a fighting chance to break out of poverty cycle - for themselves, their families and South Africa.
Click here to watch why African Angels is so important.
Thank you in advance for your contribution, and for sharing.
Lou Billett
African Angels
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By Lou Billett | Chairperson, African Angels
By Lou Billett | Chairperson
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