The Shine Centre
- Bringing literacy and language enrichment to school children with reading difficulties
Cape Town, South Africa
PARTNERS:
The Shine Centre is grateful for the FINANCIAL support received from corporations and individuals which goes towards ongoing learner assessment and development.
Corporations
- Truworths
- Sentient Communications
- Cebano
- Darroch Solutions
- Kayos Casting
- Old Mutual
- Mama Jam
- Table Bay Hotel
- David and Kathryn Torres
- Sue Patterson Jones
- Josie and Brett Hilton Barber
- Mark and Louise Reichmann
A successful venture of this kind needs more than just financial support however. The Shine Centre is grateful for generous gifts, supplies, volunteer hours, and technical assistance received from an amazingly diverse group of individuals, organizations and professionals.
Bastienne Kleine: Organizational Developmental Consultant.
Bastienne Mentors and trains directors and staff of NGO's in organizational systems and management. Bastienne has pledged two years of her time and skills to the Shine Centre as Maurita Weissenberg's mentor and trainer. Her focus has been on Project Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluating Skills.
Contact Bastienne by email
Tel: 021 685 4616
Cell: 083 550 8634
Kirstenbosch Rotary and Sacs Junior Primary for storybooks
Groote Schuur Rotary for support with eye and ear tests
Custom Graphics provides free photocopying and Nor Services provides us with free paper.
Linda van Duuren: Foundation Phase staff workshops. Linda van Duuren (of LifeFocus) is a Narrative Therapist and Learning Support Consultant . She has a deep connection with the idea that Every Child has Special Abilities. Linda has offered our volunteers workshops on applying Narrative Practices when interacting with children. (These workshops are co-presented with Helene Schoeman, Narrative Therapist and Foundation Phase Teacher.)
Linda also holds a strong interest in helping teachers to develop confident and effective diagnostic and remedial practices in the classroom. Linda has offered our Foundation Phase Staff a workshop in setting up practical systems for profiling pupils' areas of Special Needs and Special Abilities . (This workshop was co-presented with Sharon Stevens, Remedial Therapist.)
Contact Linda by email
Felicity Keats at Dancing Pencils and UmSinsi Press: Felicity is a writer, teacher and artist. She has taught thousands of people how to write using her unique right-brain methods of tapping into one's own creativity. She happily shared her skills with us on a two day workshop.
Website: Umsinsi
Anne Chadwick: helps with free eye screening each year for Shine Centre learners.
Contact Anne by email
Josie Borain: Josie is a freelance photographer and helped with great photographs for our website.
Contact Josie by email
Maxwell Balmain: For patience, guidance and the gift of his time putting together our website. Max is a professional photographer and web designer in Seattle, USA (just around the corner.)
Website: Balmain Photography
LiquidPlanner: is online project management software that offers teams a complete project environment, social networking features, and a revolutionary scheduling engine. A simple but powerful alternative to Microsoft Project, LiquidPlanner offers task management, project scheduling, and team collaboration in one place. And unlike other tools, LiquidPlanner helps teams manage change and uncertainty.
Website: www.liquidplanner.com
Calls United : For providing volunteers in many of our Shine Centre projects and with help in the school library.
Website: Calls United
Inclusive Education Western Cape: They are a resource and support centre of issues around Inclusive Education.
Website: www.included.org.za
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VOLUNTEERING AT THE SHINE CENTRE by Gail Moffat.
As a sponsor, we are invited to visit many new and worthwhile projects during the year, but our first introduction to Observatory Primary will always be a memorable one for me.
We found ourselves in a cosy little classroom, which was named "The Shine Centre." Learners were huddled in little corners or sections with their "volunteer mentors", enjoying a session of reading and playing educational board games. The vibe was relaxed, yet concentration prevailed with each group totally absorbed in what they were doing. We were so taken with this concept that we decided then and there that this was a program which we, as a Company (Truworths), would like to get involved with and support. Based on our "hands-on" strategy and to get more of an understanding of how the centre operates, I decided to volunteer an hour a week myself, and really get the "feel" of the benefits this centre offers.
The last year has been so rewarding for me, getting to know "Candice", a gentle Grade 3 learner, and noting her progress. The Centre has grown, with 48 volunteers and 78 learners receiving assistance. I have met some wonderful people through this initiative. Maurita has been amazing and keeps us all updated and enthused!
I would like to take this opportunity of thanking Mrs Naidoo, Maurita Weissenberg and all who are involved with this wonderful initiative for the amazing work which they are doing. And last but not least, I would like to thank Candice for working so hard on her reading and being such a star with those puzzles!