GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - The Eastern Cape Departments of Transport and Education joined hands to donate bicycles to learners from primary and secondary schools in Graaff-Reinet and Aberdeen at a ceremony in Graaff-Reinet last Tuesday.
The Shova Kalula Initiative is a non-motorised transport initiative to supply underprivileged learners who do not qualify for formal school transport with bicycles.
Only primary school learners living less than 5km from their schools and secondary school learners living less than 10km from school qualified for the bicycles.
Schools had to formally apply to the Department of Education to become part of this worthwhile project which ensure that learners can get to their schools and back home safely.
The bicycles remain the property of the individual schools and will be passed on to other learners from year to year. The "new owners" have to look after their new mode of transport and only use it for school purposes.
Out of the box. The bicycles donated to learners to assist them in getting to their schools and back safely.
Some of the dignitaries who were at the handover of new bicycles to learners were, from left: Cannon Maasdorp (DCES- Learner Enrichment Programmes), Fundiswa Wabanie (Humansdorp CMC Head), Nonyaniso Yenzela (CES-ESSS) and Nomandla Singeni (Graaff-Reinet CMC Head).
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