Become a Catalyst for Change with #QE4SA

In 2011 Quality Education for South Africa began it's initiative by focusing on making the School the Centre of the Community. By concentrating efforts on the schools who were identified to be under-resourced according to the Education Department, the schools with minimal infrastructure and very little community involvement.

The Partners for Possibility program is about partnering business leaders with principals from these local schools. This process has been effectively implemented within 84 schools in 2012, with this number poised to double in the first half of 2013.

The Catalysts for Change program was created when we realized that not everyone sees themselves as a business leader, or has the available time to commit on a weekly basis. We needed to make volunteering accessible to the normal person without the hassles of trying to find a credible project that would appreciate their time. 

Catalysts for Change offers those wishing to give of their time, an effective vehicle to use their gifts and strengths or money. Potential Catalysts apply to join the program and list the skills they feel that would be most effective in assisting the Quality Education for SA program.

These people 'we call them active citizens' are then placed in our database and when either Quality Education or the Partners at the schools need a specific skill these volunteers are then mobilized.

To date we have had many people volunteering their services : Engineers, Doctors, Entrepreneurs, Nurses, Mathematics Experts, IT Trainers, Public Relations Professionals, Management Consultants, Photographers, Social Media Gurus, Web Design Specialists, Advertising Agencies, Leadership Development Experts and even Teachers from government and private schools.

We can effectively use any skill and this program takes the hassle out of trying to find an organization where you skills and resources would be appreciated. Through our network of many organizations across the country, being a Catalyst for Change at QE4SA will certainly provide the satisfaction of knowing that you are being an active citizen in South Africa and they you are actively contributing to the vision of Quality Education for all children in South Africa by 2022.

For more information please contact Richard Simmonds who is the National Catalyst Collaborator on richard@symphonia.net