Our Stories

“We can already hear the beautiful sound of happy children and staff emanating from the buildings!\” No words can better describe the progress of the build at Project Star than these shared by Focus on iThemba\’s Donor Relations Assistant, Shelley Barron. \”The building team have worked so thoroughly over the last two months to ensure […]

“I am overjoyed! Really, I cannot put into words how grateful I am to have been given this opportunity to make a life-changing difference to my school. Thank you Focus on iThemba. My heart is happy!” These are the words of Cynthia Cibane, owner and principal of Inkanyezi Pre-School, based in Madameni, just outside Hillcrest.

At Focus on iThemba, \’sustainability and biodiversity\’ is one of our core values! We acknowledge the importance of being good stewards of the environment and playing our part in creating a sustainable future for all. For last month\’s Arbor week, we got together with DanCor Group and got our hands dirty! We can’t wait to enjoy

It brought our team the greatest pleasure to support our ten partner Pre-Schools with the compliant reopening of their schools. After a long 5 months of being at home, late last month our partner principals received the news from the Department of Social Development that their schools met all the COVID-19 requirements and they can

THE 18th OF JULY is a day that many South Africans take to honour the legacy of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s former President. In commemoration of his 67-year fight for social justice, the day aims to bring people around the world together to fight poverty and promote peace, reconciliation and cultural diversity according to Mandela’s

Providing a bridge of hope is central to the make-up of Focus on iThemba and our team, in response to the fight against COVID-19, has broadened our mission in this season to support the communities we operate in with food relief and other hygiene essentials. A new hope is birthed! The last two weeks has seen our

Staff, students and supporters of Waterfall Schools came together on Tuesday, 28 January 2020 to celebrate the opening of eight new classrooms for the College! This new building has been named The Victor Daitz Centre in honour of the lead donors – The Victor Daitz Foundation – and the contribution that they have made to the development of

Tears of joy filled the eyes of Buyisiwe Ngongoma, principal of Siyajabula Community Creche and Pre-school as she stood to receive a cheque of R60 000 towards the development of a Grade R classroom from AVON Justine on Thursday, 5 March. Having been partners since 2012, local non-profit organisation, Focus on iThemba and AVON Justine have

Celebrating small victories! In 2020, our team celebrate the growth of our life-changing iThemba Scholars Programme as it enters its fourth year of supporting highly capable boys and girls, who from our partnering ECD centres, have been awarded donor-funded scholarships to attend Waterfall Schools. Since its inception in 2016, where 4 boys and girls entered

We are excited to announce that we have committed to another transformation project which we hope to press the button on early this year. We are blessed to have a few partners already express a keen interest in what will be our third Pre-School upgrade and we hope to bring life-altering positive change to the