Inqubela Foundation is non-profitable registered charitable Trust. It was established in 2010, after the realisation that public schools in under-developed communities still lacked the basic necessities needed to enable them to cultivate a culture of learning and teaching excellence.
Vision: To develop schools in developing communities into leading centres of academic excellence and leadership development.
Mission: To run holistic, educational, innovative and transferable learner-centered programmes responsive to developmental initiatives and independent of location and environment through:
Researching on, designing and implementation of effective-run programmmes that will ensure maximum self, school, community and social development; and Creating networks of emerging students, youth leaders, institutions, families, local and international communitiesat largeto maximise the impact of their knowledge, skills and competencies in order to address educational and social challenges faced by the learners in developing schools.
Our values are:
-Ubuntu
-Excellence
-Innovation
-Selfless leadership
-Spirit of peace and reconciliation
Board of Trustees:
·Dr. K.C. Makhetha – Vice Rector, External Relations at the University of the Free State
·Mr. Sibusiso Tshabalala: Final year student at the University of the Free State
Our Guardian
Mr. John Samuels: He is the former Chief Executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. He worked for many years with former President Nelson Mandela,as an advisor and speech writer. Samuels played a vital role in the establishment of the Nelson Mandela Rhodes Scholarship. He is also the former headmaster of the Oprah Winfrey School Leadership for Girls Academy.
We are part of the solution of our education system inthis manner:
First Phase: Identifying a school that needs help the most. We look at their Grade 12 results for the past five years, they have to have and/or still struggle to get a pass mark of above 50 percent. The school needs to have less than five extra-mural activities.
Second Phase: Together with learners, educators and parents, through a series of dialogues, we identify the challenges the school faces, and the role that each stakeholder ought to play in developing the school into a leading centre of academic excellence and leadership development.
Third Phase: We implement our programmes, in a manner that addresses the school's challenges. We monitor and evaluate our impact on the school.
Fourth Phase: We implement our exit strategy by training, supporting and mentoring learner-leaders within the school. Our belief is that, wherever we go, the school must take charge of the programmes, and raise champions that will carry them forward.
We are proud of many achievements we have managed to accomplish, in just two years. We count the following as one of them:
- Having hosted the Free State Province's first Education Indaba for parents, learners and educators
- Designed and launched Bokamoso Tutorial Classes where more than 40 university students, lecturers and young professionals offer weekly tutorial classes in our adopted schools.
- Having launched libraries and book clubs in partnership with FunDza.
- Having our Leadership Development Model adopted and used by the University of the Free State in their Schools Support Programme
- Having designed the Free State Province's first Human Rights Education Model for schools
- Having established Ke-Ngoaneso/My Sister Programme that ensures that more than 50 female learners never miss school again because they can't afford sanitary towels. The programe further expands into a monthly mentorship dialogue between the learners and young professionals who serve as mentors.
This what people have to say about us:
“Inqubela Foundation is one of the most inventive education change projects at any university. It draws on the experience and expertise of accomplished activists and education thinkers as background advisers to the project. It is multi-pronged, recognising that in the poorest schools the strategy has to cover the range of needs from basic infrastructure to leadership development to teaching support.
“But the foundation does more than reach out to schools in need. It has become the incubator for new layers of young leadership to emerge through the experience of working in the foundation’s school projects. One member has already gained from the Inqubela platform to become visible as an international achiever in the Google Young Scholars community. It is through selfless involvement in the work of the Foundation that replacement leadership for our society can emerge.
“Inqubela works in the cracks of education which no huge government programme can reach. It goes where few education officials spend their time -in the daily grind of making education work where material resources are few and teacher energies have long dissipated.
“The foundation gives hope and new energy in schools and among learners often forgotten by our focus on the privileged.I recommend without reservation this student-driven project for funding and support, noting the stable governance structures set in place to oversee the work of Inqubela.”
Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor of the UFS
“I wish your programmes could continue for the next 10 years. I promise you, you will revive and produce great leaders. I have realised that you guys do it from your hearts and that means a lot. There is a super change in my life and I just hope that you will reach more schoolsso as to create better people.”
“We have learnt a lot from Vulamasango High School , thank you. This initiative has awaken the plans we had as the RCL. We will now put all the plans we had in order and strive to become greatleaders. We now have a clearer vision”
“This had been the best workshop ever. You guys made it easy for us to engage and feel free to corporate and voice our opinions. The sessions were very uplifting and motivating. They made us realise the potential we have as individuals and as a team. I am very grateful that I was part of this event. It was worth every minute.”
“I learnt a lot from today’s sessions. I learnt that leadership is a lot of work that needs constant communication between learners, teachers and our communities at large. I learnt that key to success starts through reading . Mr. Israel asked us to “Keep the fire burning and, if it’s not on, one should turn it on, today.”
“The foundation has inspired us as leaders of our school and individuals to starts being effective and have the passion and drive in serving our fellow learners. We were inspired to develop our schools and assist the learners in achieving high marks. ”
The above quotations were responses from RCL members who attended the Learner Empowerment& Critical Conversations held in April 2012
“My children have become thinkers in their own right. Thank you Inqubela Foundation. ” Mr. Tshediso Motlolometsi, principal at Tsoseletso High School, in Bloemfontein
We are reaching out today, for tomorrow
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