Mamelodi East

CASHBUILD HELPS TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS POSSIBLE FOR MAMELODI SCHOOLS

Eight schools in Mamelodi East, Gauteng, were the lucky winners of the Cashbuild Art-at-Heart competition. The schools each received a Cashbuild building material voucher to the value of R15,000. The vouchers were handed out at the opening ceremony of the new Cashbuild Mamelodi East store on the 7 th of February 2019. Plans for new classrooms, kitchens and grounds maintenance are on the planning list for these schools.

Impendulo Primary School, Emasangweni Primary School and Sediba sa thuto Primary School were just three of the eight schools that each received a Cashbuild building material voucher.

Emasangweni Primary School's principal, Ms L Ndhala beamed with happiness at the news that her school had been chosen: "We are in desperate need of repairing our school grounds. The most urgent would be the paving in the area where the children have break time, then we will be repairing the veranda around the school as well as doing some much needed painting in the classrooms." She went on to express heartfelt thanks to Cashbuild for this campaign.

Ms D Mahlangu, the principal of Sediba sa thuto Primary School, will be using the Cashbuild voucher to buy materials that will help start the building of a brand new kitchen and store room. "We currently serve two meals a day to 1880 learners, so not having a proper kitchen or store room for the food items is proving to be challenging. We are so blessed with this voucher as it will take a lot of worry away from us in assisting our children."

The principal of Impendulo Primary School, Mrs D Mampuru, says: "Our biggest challenge at this school is overcrowding. We currently have 1956 learners in our school so our main goal is to be able to build extra classrooms, and the dream is to have three full classrooms, so this generous voucher from Cashbuild is just what we needed to kick start this journey of being able to give the children better quality of learning by offering more space to them.

At the opening ceremony of the new Cashbuild Mamelodi East store which took place on the 7 th of February 2019, when the building material vouchers totaling R120 000 were handed out to the eight winning schools, the children entertained everyone with singing, cultural dancing and theatrical performances.

The Cashbuild Art-at-Heart competition entails learners from each school to submit their best artwork to Cashbuild. This artwork is displayed at the ceremony, and remains on display in the Cashbuild store for the next six years.

Artwork was judged and three winners from each school were named. Winners received Cashbuild Art- at-Heart gold, silver and bronze certificates for first, second and third place respectively. The Manager's Choice was awarded to a learner from Mahube Primary School who was the overall winner of the artwork competition. This award was announced on the day and the winning learner received a stationery pack and a glass trophy. The winner was also given the honour of officially opening the new store.

The schools that benefitted from the Cashbuild Art-at-Heart donations were:

Since the Art-at-Heart campaign was launched 18 years ago, Cashbuild has helped more than 3 200 schools in Southern Africa with over R40-million worth of building materials. Cashbuild is BEE compliant and every time a store is opened, relocated or refurbished, Cashbuild not only makes donations to local schools, but also creates jobs for community members.

The Art-at-Heart competition is a southern African Cashbuild initiative whereby donations are made to some of the region's most needy schools.

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