Zeekoegat Primary School Trust

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The Zeekoegat Primary School Trust was started to raise funds for a rural farm school, located in the heart of the Klein Karoo. Western Cape. Zeekoegat Primary School Trust started in 2008 comprising of concerned members of the farming and tourism community including Safari Ostrich Show Farm. At Safari Ostrich Show Farm we have a project room that showcases the entire project and its development and allows us to raise money from national and international tourists.
Zeekoegat Primary School Trust has over the years been assisting the school with the short fall between what they need to run this school and what the Department of Education is able to provide.
Zeekoegat Primary School is located 7km outside Oudtshoorn – South Africa, en route to Safari Ostrich Farm. A rural farm school in the heart of the Klein Karoo serves this impoverished community. With the Zeekoegat Primary School Project we strive to change the lives of these disadvantaged children, but we cannot do this without the continued help of donations.

As a rural farm school that has been educating local farm children since 1938, the school houses just less than 100 children from Grade 1 to Grade 6 and also has a small Grade R Group & toddlers. For some of the children the walk to school is a 14 km walk daily, yet school is their safe environment where they get cooked meals and are able to learn.
The old School building is in a very bad condition and declared structurally unsafe. Therefore we have 3 Mobile Prefab classrooms for the six grades and we erected a steel structure for the Grade R & Play School. These 3 Mobile Classes however don´t meet our need for splitting our 7 Grades and play school. – 8 Classes and Teachers required.

Projects:
• Employment of 3 new teachers
• Supporting a feeding scheme that feeds 91 children, and for some children this is the only meals of the day
• Extra educational material: 3 Smart Boards provided to improve literacy & numeracy skills
• School uniforms for winter and summer

Vanessa Engelbrecht is the Trustee and Manager at Safari Ostrich Farm.

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