The SAME Foundation helped to improve ID Mkezi Business, Commerce and Management School situated in Gugulethu, which is a predominantly Xhosa speaking community consisting of around 100 000 people. The community has an unemployment rate of around 40% of which approximately 50% of them live in shacks. This school strives to offer quality teaching and learning to the high school learner population – previously standing at 1245 pupils. Although they are challenged with many difficulties, ID Mkezi High School has managed to deliver quality education and produce excellent results as is evident in the 2016 grade 12 NCS results where a 85% pass rate was obtained, which was an increase of 23% from the previous year.

The SAME Foundation completed a science and maths laboratory, computer centre, and higher security system upgrades by 2018 for this school.

Thank you to all that supported this project.