![]() ![]() "We have a cradle to career model", which also provides and family support in order to break the "cycle of poverty", said Lief. Most of the children born there go on to study at the centre's school. The centre houses a clinic - staffed by a doctor and a few nurses - specialising on pregnancies of women with AIDS.Ĭlose to 600 women are currently receiving free treatment.Īll the babies delivered over the past here have been born free of HIV. Cradle to careerĪmong the 2,000 children who have been through the centre over the past 25 years of its existence, most were born to HIV-positive mothers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The school has no fees and its $7 million annual budget is funded by philanthropists and local companies.īut it only takes children living within a radius of seven kilometres. Ubuntu Pathways prides itself in investing "in disadvantaged children the same way we're investing in privileged children," according to founder Jacob Lief. If the Ubuntu Pathways project did not exist here, "these kids may not be at school at all," said a 32-year-old teacher, Taneal Padayachie.ĭecades after the end of white rule, the effects of a two-tier apartheid system, which offered inferior education to black South Africans, are still being felt.Įight out of 10 schoolchildren aged nine or ten struggle to understand what they read, according to a study published last month. Many in the neighbourhood did not complete school, and most households live off a small government social welfare. The modern concrete structure stands cheek-by-jowl with rows of modest brick houses and corrugated iron structures. Nestled in the middle of a township of thousands of inhabitants in the coastal city of Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth, it aims to play its small part to help break the "cycle of poverty" in the world's most unequal society. ![]()
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