Project Description Region: Africa Country: South Africa Location: KwaZulu-Natal Total Budget: $0 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy NEEDS: Over700 mostly rural Primary schools in our education District practise multigrade teaching i.e. up to 4 grades are taught simultaneously by one teacher in one classroom. This means that a teacher, each day has to prepare lessons four 4 grades in up to 5 subjects i.e. 20 lesson preparations. For obvious reasons, only the brightest pupils can cope with such distracted learning. One of the outcomes of the problem is a serious weakness in the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). The root of the problem has been identified as deficient teaching in multigrade Primary schools. ACTION IN PROGRESS:The Provincial Department of Education (DOE) has invited two Rotaians to sit on a committee to improve the situation because both the Rotarians were involved in Rotary sponsored interventions both in Primary and High Schools with marked success by providing video lessons and viewing equipment to schools. It was decided to carry out a pilot program by supplying monitors and video lessons to test their effectiveness. The results of pilot program in 10 schools have shown that we can engage learners with curriculum based video lessons while at the same time, the teacher can teach another grade in a different subject formally. The teachers have embraced the system. PROJECT FUNDS DISBURSEMENT: The main cost of the program is the purchase of TV sets and the data storage devices containing the lessons and a trasining program for the teachers. CLUB MEMBERS INVOLVEMENT: Many of our club members will be involved in distributing TVs to the schools and ensuring that the teachers understand how to use the technology and ensuring the safe keeping of equipment. PROJECT TIMELINE: As soon as the funding of the project is assured, a Global Grant application will be submitted to begin implementation in the first local school term i.e. 2020. A feature of this project is that we have established a per learner budget of about $11 per learner. This application is targetting $40,000 or about 3,600 learners. There are about 28,000 affected learners in the education district. The only limiting factor to targetting more learners are the funds available. $11 more means another learner. Primary Host Partner District: 9370 Rotary Club of: E-Club of South Africa One Primary Contact: Patrick Draper Email: patdraper7@gmail.com Primary International Partner District: 5550 Rotary Club of: Winnipeg Primary Contact: Strini Reddy Email: sereddy@shaw.ca Project Status Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2019-20 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #15000.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total There are no contributions yet for this project. Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation $0 $0 $0 Total $0 Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries 21-Jul-19 System Entry System Entry: Creation of project page. 25-Jul-19 by Jim O'Meara System Entry: Pledge of $3,000 with $3,000 DDF by James O'Meara of the Rotary Club of Carlsbad, District 5340. 25-Jul-19 by Jim O'Meara System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 25-Jul-19 by Jim O'Meara System Entry: Pledge of $2,500 with $2,500 DDF by James O'Meara of the Rotary Club of Carlsbad, District 5340. 31-Jul-19 by Jim O'Meara Change in Pledge, Carlsbad will contribute $3,000 and El Camino Real will not participate. 5-Aug-19 by Janice Kurth DDF from D5340 was approved at the District Foundation Committee meeting today. 17-Nov-19 by Patrick Draper At present there is a temporary delay in the application process because our beneficiary has had a significant and positive change in goalposts and we are busy reevaluation the budget as a result of this. 2-Mar-20 by Patrick Draper Project has been submitted and authorised by all signatories. We await TRF approval. 4-Apr-20 by Jim O'Meara Global Grant GG2093875--District 2074 Hosted by the E-club of South Africa has been withdrawn from from MatchingGrants.org/global and TRF. TRF was notified on April 1, 2020. 1-Jun-20 by Jim O'Meara G-2074 has been canceled, withdrawn. Information supplied by E-Club, Rotarian Pat Draper. 3-Jul-20 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Project dropped by Philippe Lamoise. Reason for dropping: Requested by Jim O'Meara: Cancelled by Host Club.