Amasango News

Former Amasango pupil voted Head Student of local High School!

Some wonderful news!! One of our past pupils, Siyanda, has been elected head student Of Nathaniel Nyaluza High School in the Grahamstown township. This is one of Grahamstown’s biggest schools with over 600 pupils and he was elected by the students.

What a success story! Siyanda was a juvenile delinquent who was sentenced to 3 years in prison at the age of 13 for robbery.

Congratulations to Harriet on completing the Great North Run for Amasango!

After spending two weeks volunteering at Amasango’s school in South Africa, I really wanted to do something more for the charity.

Having successfully got my place on the Great North Run through the general ballot, I decided to use it as an opportunity to raise funds for the kids at Amasango. Through the generosity of family and friends I managed to raise over £500 for Amasango!

Report of volunteering at Amasango 13-23 August 2010

Amasango: a place to belong

During my visit, there was a nationwide teachers’ strike. Jane continued to open the school each day with the aid of the school cook, secretary, another member of staff and volunteers. It was a very special time. There were fewer pupils, because no bus collected those far away, but many came anyway, including one who walked about 4km on crutches. The children were fed, we had assembly, they played games and just enjoyed each other’s company.

School chapel collections and more go to Amasango

Among the best known public schools in England, Radley College and Repton School have generously made part of their annual chapel collections over to Amasango. During her exchange visit to the U.K., Zoleka Kate spoke at St Andrew’s School Totteridge in north London which as a result donated the proceeds of a cake and sweets stall to us and Uxbridge High School in west London, where a Trustee teaches, sent the remarkably large proceeds of a teachers’ conference day charity auction.

Teacher exchange with Pavillion Study Centre!

The Amasango Career School has exchanged teachers for one week’s experience with the Pavillion Study Centre in Barnet, north London who have also been kind enough to donate funds. Sanjo Jeffrey went to Grahamstown and Zoleka Kate came to U.K. in 2009 to the great benefit of the school in each case.

Continued support from Parochial Church Councils, particularly St James' Piccadilly

The Parochial Church Councils of Pakefield (Suffolk), St James’ Piccadilly, (London), St James Walton and St Peter’s Wellesbourne (Warwickshire), St John’s Whetstone (north London), St Nicholas Allestree (Derby) and the Wealdstone and Yealmpton Methodist congregations have all been most generous. Several have also provided Volunteers to Grahamstown and St James’ Piccadilly has kindly made its Church Hall available in recent years for our AGMs.

Channing Junior School's record fundraising efforts!

Channing Junior School for girls in Highgate Hill, north London, selected Amasango as their chosen charity for their fund raising events in the winter term 2008. As a result they donated more than any other school or church has given us in any one year. Thank you !

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