The Umkhumbane Schools Project

Official Twitter of The Umkhumbane Schools Project, an NPO providing educational enrichment and opportunity to South African youth

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The Umkhumbane Schools Project salutes Francis Kéré, first African to win the 2022 Pritzker Prize -- a highest honor in the field of Architecture.
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Developing EGD skills through creative problem-solving. Bright minds designing post-Covid learning spaces. All of this through a collaboration among The Umkhumbane Schools Project, The Durban University of Technology, and Level6 EduMove. More to come!
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Team-Building at The Umkhumbane Schools Project. The team that plays together…makes a great team! #welearntogether

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Matching Funds!!! It's time for our Annual Little By Little Campaign through GlobalGiving! April 8-12 your gift will be matched! Please help us keep building our resource centre and the shared microscopes... https://t.co/fY7BWoW9QK

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It's Time for our Annual Little by Little Campaign through Global Giving, 08-12 April! Please help us continue building our resource centre and our microscope-sharing project, our First-Aid programs, and all... https://t.co/3UztZ7Bt3Y

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Our First-Aid Training Program Has Begun! Thanks to an exciting partnership with St John Durban, a member of the St John International network of community health and development sites, The Umkhumbane Schools... https://t.co/37MYNeV1zO

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What a Fun Day this Was! Thanks to our very own Linda Boshoff, who leads the USP Maths Centre at Bonela Secondary, our energetic Grade 8 learners got to finish up Term One with a Maths Fun Day -- complete with... https://t.co/bMIXJHSeAs

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Welcome, Goucher College Study Abroad Students! We were so happy to have this group with us on Monday for a USP presentation on challenges to education equity in South Africa, a tour of Wiggins Secondary, and... https://t.co/GpUZM6dVPv

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An Inconvenient Truth. Still true, still inconvenient, and with a message that is more urgent than ever before. Though this film is a recommended part of the Grade 10 geography curriculum in South Africa,... https://t.co/JCSYE8JMiD

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The Team that Escapes Together...Works Well Together! The USP staff had a fabulous and memorable time at our team-building event at PlayWorks' Mystery Escape at Musgrave Centre. We divided into two groups and... https://t.co/XYVVvqeabG

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Our Classroom Microscopes Initiative has launched! We are so excited to be bringing our brand new set of 12 compound microscopes to classrooms in all five of our partner schools on a rotating basis. Learners... https://t.co/riitfFs5XO

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2019 Maths Programme Launch! The USP has officially kicked off the new school year with the start of our Friday and Saturday Maths programmes for 2019. Over 300 learners in Grades 10-12 attended our... https://t.co/sG0p1T3B0K

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IT'S HERE! The Umkhumbane Schools Project's new website is live at https://t.co/x4d7Vg5DDK. Please take a look and consider making a gift in support of our work. Many thanks and Happy New Year! https://t.co/0RsE8vg5zg

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Reunion! One thing we love about this time of year at The Umkhumbane Schools Project is getting to welcome back our alums who have come home from their universities for the holidays. These USP alums are... https://t.co/tFIXHY48yQ

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Your gift to The Umkhumbane Schools Project will be matched today -- matching lasts until midnight tonight! Please click here https://t.co/rf8M0ykp2Y to make a GivingTuesday donation. Many thanks to those who have donated today! https://t.co/rf8M0ykp2Y

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One more sunny day together -- complete with a scavenger hunt, scones at the Tea Garden, and entertainment by some cheeky, uninvited visitors! On Thursday afternoon the USP hosted our Biodiversity Skills... https://t.co/mN0VkXISlb

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After our last Saturday morning of teaching for the year yesterday, the USP hosted our Maths Mentoring Team for a year-end celebration lunch at Mojo's in Cato Manor. Many thanks to our dedicated 2018 team of... https://t.co/UMVUiVYe6p

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The Umkhumbane Schools Project's 2018 Friday and Saturday Mathematics classes are coming to a close! We had a memorable time at the programme's year-end event yesterday, celebrating our learners' hard work and... https://t.co/8KhziZjBzW

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What a great time we had today at the Grade 8 Maths Revision Workshop in the brand new Umkhumbane Schools Project Maths Centre at Bonela Secondary School! While their schoolmates had the day off, 72 Grade 8... https://t.co/E1AEQyMVe7

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Welcome, SIT Group from the USA! We had a great visit on Saturday with the SIT Study Abroad group from a wide cross-section of American colleges and universities, all here in Durban for their Fall 2018... https://t.co/hDnCljnInw