The Shine Centre
- Bringing literacy and language enrichment to school children with reading difficulties
Cape Town, South Africa
How can you help?
We do not receive any government funding for this project. A once off donation or a monthly donation need not go towards administrative costs. The joy of our project is that we work from within a school. This means that running costs, security, electricity, rates and rent do not exist for us as the school provides us with all the afore-mentioned.
You could choose to fund the following:
- Annual ear and eye tests, including funding towards glasses or further testing as needed.
- Bi-annual parent workshops
- Quarterly volunteer training
- Bi-annual assessments of learners, including any specialist assessments needed for a child.
- Sponsor our "volunteer packs" which has a set of literacy resources for our programme.
- Sponsor our "learner packs" which has a set of reading books.
- Buy a set of readers for our "Literacy Hour Project."
- Sponsor a child's creative story book to be published. Look at our Partners link and read about the Dancing Pencils project which our learners are part of.
- Sponsor an 'at-risk' child's specialist support lessons for a year. (See our Good News story for an accountant of how a child's life was turned around after receiving such sponsorship.) See contact details for information regarding our registration number and NPO Status.
Cheques can be sent to:
The Shine Trust
c/o Maurita Weissenberg
2 Sylvan Road, Wynberg 7800, Cape Town, South Africa
Internet payment is also possible. Please email us for a more detailed copy of our "Project Plan" and "Implementation Plan." You will receive a quarterly newsletter from us. You are also invited to email our Director, Maurita Weissenberg, for any updates you may need.
Direct deposits (including international) can be made via the Shine Trust.
The Shine Trust:
Standard Bank, Thibault Square, Cape Town
Swift Number : SBZA ZAJJ
National Bank code: 051001
Thibault Square bank code: 020909
Cheque Account Number: 072 861339
(Swift number and national bank code to be used for international deposits.)
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