"In January of 2025, i felt the Lord speak to me, on two separate occasions, "Feed them" "Go after the children"
At the time i was not sure what God wanted me to do, and then by divine intervention i happen to read about the Kingsway Christian School, i knew in my spirit that this is the place where God wanted me to go.
What i did not know, is that when i got there i was greeted by the most amazing people, with the most beautiful testimonies of how good our Heavenly Father is.
i was greeted by the children with so much love that it was overwhelming, in my car on the way to the airport, i was weeping, i asked the Lord what would you have me do, "Feed them" "Go after the children" the same instructions He gave me earlier the year.
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ByFaith Global pledges to assist these precious children with whatever we can.
-Kilo
About kINGSWAY
Our
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Kingsway Christian School was established in 1986 and is run as a non-profit independent primary school from Grades 00 to Grade 7. Although the school is partly subsidized by the Gauteng Department of Education, most of the school`s income comes from corporate and individual donations.
The school has identified the following areas as needy areas and appreciate your support
Sponsor a Child` School Fees
For many of our parents the cost of sending their children to school is an enormous financial burden. A further worrying trend is the increase in the number of children coming from Child Headed Households as well as children from neglected social backgrounds. Although we are a low fee paying school, we often find parents defaulting on their fees. We therefore ask for donations towards sponsoring a child`s school fees at only R350 per month.
Support our ICT Intervention programs
We have an ICT lab resourced with 32 computers. These computers require constant maintenance. We also run Computer Knowledge classes for all our learner as well as online mathematics program called Mathsbuddy for all grades. Given funding we intend to run coding classes for all the grades. We also intend to roll over our ICT program to involve capacitating our educators in ICT courses.
It will cost us R172 000 a year to maintain our ICT program.
Numeracy and Literacy Intervention programs
South African school children have demonstrated poor academic outcomes and levels of performance in mathematics and literacy, especially in quintile 1 and 2 schools, which are schools that draws learners from the poorest communities like Kingsway School. To supplement our school based numeracy learning, we partnered with another organisation called Jumpstart to implement the NumberSense Mathematics program currently running from grades 1- 7. Given funding the school will embark on Readers Are Leaders Online literacy program. It will cost us R102 000 per annum to maintain our Numeracy program as well expanding into Literacy.
Teacher Development programs
To achieve positive learner outcomes, we believe that our educators should be equipped with recent teaching methodologies. In this regard we would want to capacitate our educators in ICT and Trauma Management. One of biggest challenge we face is Educator Remuneration. Our educators are remunerated at 85% of their government colleagues, however, despite this challenge we have not had any staff turnover for the last 5 years. We therefore greatly appreciate any financial investment towards teacher salaries. The aim is to pay them at par with Government teachers and as motivation on the great work they already doing.
Investment in Learner Welfare
Although we get support from the community through donated food, there are times where we do not receive such donations and the majority of our 257 learners desperately need food provision during their learning period. Some of our learners require ongoing trauma counselling. In some cases, the school provides uniforms and school transport where necessary.