Alumni

Learners who have completed Grade 4 at our Early Learning Centre

Traditionally, a preparatory (“prep”) school education completes in grade 3 and learners move on to a Senior Primary phase or school. However, due to the enormous educational and emotional jump between grade 3 and grade 4, we decided to extend our “preparatory” model to include grade 4. We want the opportunity right at the start of their Senior Primary schooling to prepare our learners fully with a healthy and positive attitude towards studying, and to further entrench their foundational literacy and mathematical skills. We believe that by age 10 (grade 4), we will have given our learners “wings” to cope well in a bigger school environment.

Once our learners have passed Grade 4, most of them move to Franschhoek Primary/High School to further their education. We do support them for the remainder of their primary school journey (grades 5 to 7) through our Alumni Programme. Their continued well-being and success is important to us!

They always remain part of The Kusasa Project family and attend regular alumni gatherings.

High school learners who have graduated from our Scholars’ Programme

Since 2008, approximately 80 high school learners from Grade 8-12 level have participated in a Scholarship Programme at The Kusasa Project. We enabled talented teenagers to attend fee-paying state schools and provided critical after-school support such as extra tuition, career guidance, mentoring, and social support. Most of these children would not be where they are today had they not received regular mentoring from our staff and volunteers or attended the extra Mathematics, Science and English classes we provided.

We are very interested in their journeys post school – at tertiary institutions and in the workplace.

These are a few of our past scholars’ outstanding accomplishments: