Learners
You can start an Equal Education group at your school. With this you can work to improve problems in your school, particularly in poor and working class areas – everything from lack of books, computers and sports facilities, to late-coming, transport and broken windows. If you are at a well-resourced school then you can start a group which supports EE campaigns in other areas. EE leaders will come to your school to help you build this group and connect it to Equal Education. With this group you can also attend weekly EE meetings in your area, or start these meetings if they don’t yet exist.
Contact
Nokubonga Yawa 0769004048 bonga(at)equaleducation.org.za
Lwandiso Stofile 0789765783 lwandiso.stofile(at)equaleducation.org.za
Parents
You can start an EE Parent’s group in your area. Through this you can support campaigns for better facilities and teaching in our schools, particularly in poor and working class areas.
Contact
Lumkile Zani 0719034497 lumkile.zani(at)equaleducation.org.za
Teachers and Principals
Equal Education is not in competition with your unions. We respect the teachers’ unions and want to work with them for quality and equal education. However, you can support Equal Education as a teacher. Support learners in your school to establish an EE group, and meet with others teachers to improve the quality of teaching at your school.
Contact
Joey Hasson 0823746555 joey(at)equaleducation.org.za
Academics
If you have an interest in education, we would be happy to meet with you. As we are doing out work, we often find that policy questions arise for which inadequate material exists in the published literature. You can be very helpful both in directing us to the best material in your area of expertise, and by assigning your students particular research questions which may support work with which we are currently engaged.
Contact
Yoliswa Dwane 0723427747 dwaney56(at)gmail.com
Members of Parliament and Members of Provincial Legislatures
We provide information to MPs and MPLs and are willing to run seminars for you and/or your constituency on education issues. We can also provide you with research, material for parliamentary questions and can keep you updated on our campaigns.
Contact
Ahmed Mohamed 0828470568 ahmed.mohamed(at)equaleducation.org.za
University Students & Local Volunteers
Equal Education is built on the hard work of volunteers. Call us or visit our offices in Khayelitsha. You can assist with the following:
- Planning and/or running weekly youth group meetings as part of a team
- Administrative tasks like stuffing envelopes, making calls and writing letters
- Working as a researcher, writer or research assistant in the Policy, Communications & Research Department
- Coordinate specific projects which occur from time to time
- Work as a personal assistant to one of the heads of department
Contact
Zingisani Nkanjeni 0789228959 zingisani.nkanjeni(at)equaleducation.org.za
Adam Sack 0837941111 adsack(at)gmail.com
International Volunteers
Equal Education has benefited enormously from the help of volunteers, including international volunteers. We do not accept international volunteers for periods shorter than three months. We prefer international volunteers for a minimum period of six months. We can assist with transport, where possible. International volunteers can perform any of the tasks listed above under local volunteers.
Contact
Michelle Adler 0823872800 michelle.adler(at)equaleducation.org.za
Companies and Donors
EE depends on donations and membership fees in order to operate. We accept general donations, but can also look for a specific project which you’d like to support. We would be happy to do a presentation for you on our work. Please support us.
Contact
Doron Isaacs 0828502111 doron(at)equaleducation.org.za
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