Meet Nobuntu Ncani, who attended a Work Readiness course at The Zanokahnyo Network in 2019. There she met one of our Early Life staff members who noticed that Nobunto was pregnant and invited her to attend Sikunye’s Antenatal classes. What follows is a heartwarming story of deep personal growth and the power of connection to support individuals – both personally...
In response the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, Common Good is committed to doing all that we can as an organisation to continue to have an impact in the communities we serve, and to play our part in slowing the spread of the virus. On Tuesday, 17 March, for the ongoing health and safety of our staff, beneficiaries and partner organisations, we moved...
https://youtu.be/KcoayM0FEO8 To everyone who has partnered with us in 2019, thank you for giving good gifts of hope, opportunity, dignity, connection and care to thousands of men, women and children across Cape Town.
During the July school holidays, Common Good joined up with XL Education and Silikamva High, to hold an 'academic bootcamp' for Grade 12 learners. They received four days of intensive tuition aimed at preparing them for their Mock exams and, ultimately, their Matric finals. The hard work paid off: pre- and post-assessments showed an average improvement of 22%! Many learners finished...
I have always loved children. Now that my own are grown up, spending time with my Shine kids is the most rewarding thing. These children grow up amidst violence and so much scarcity. But if they can learn how to read and write, and to love doing so, I believe they can grow up to do absolutely anything.Liz EllenbogenVolunteer, Shine...
Outstanding schools emerge when outstanding leadership teams refuse to settle for the status quo. Despite the education crisis facing our nation, they have a vision to provide excellent education and commit to achieving this in some of our toughest communities. In our public schools there is a deep cry for support and leadership development from those who have been promoted into...
Ncebakazi Tingwe loves to cook and dreams of opening a cooking school for youth in Langa. Unfortunately, her previous efforts to study for a profession in the hospitality industry have been disappointed: she left a chefs’ learnership after finding out that it wasn’t correctly accredited, and had to drop out of food and beverage management classes at the Cape Peninsula...
“When you pay attention to the beginning of the story, you can change the whole story” - Raffi CavoukianScience tells us that the first thousand days of life, from conception to two years of age, is a short but critical phase of development that ultimately determines the trajectory of each young life. This is when the building blocks for learning...
Common Good is delighted to welcome Boundary Primary to our growing network of collaboration schools.Boundary is the second school that we are partnering with in the Bonteheuwel community, joining Disa Primary with whom we have already enjoyed a year-long association. The school currently serves 494 learners from Grade R – 7, and has a teaching and leadership staff of seventeen.The...
