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The main strength

'To design our Holiday programme, we used the school based model which has been developed by the SPZA, and had a great result especially in the Zwelihle community (Hermanus community). The main strength of this model is to base the Holiday Programme within a primary school – using the venue and the materialof the school – and having access to the children and to the teachers of that school to ensure sustainability’. Director Certificate of Youth Training (CYT).

Spot on

'The strategy of linking high school peer education with associated primary schools is absolutely spot on.’'The practice of peer education and its capacity to generate protection, motivation and guidance by young people to other vulnerable children is maturing and is fostering leadership in school settings where true leadership has often been absent. For this we thank SPZA for walking with us along this path, supporting us and learning together how to pave the way forward'. Directeur Leadership South.

Best practice model

'The holiday schools model is the main best practice model that I advocate in my workshops'. Frank Julie Associates. For a free download of Frank Julies book The Art of Leadership and Management on the Ground.

Self-worth and self esteem

'This has done so much for our learner’s self-worth and self esteem … Other values such as confidence, commitment, perseverance, working together, meeting challenges ahead and cooperation were taught to our learners'. Directeur basisschool over de circus holiday school.

Encourage entrepreneurship

'The holiday schools have included activities such as the circus where children were taught skills that could encourage entrepreneurship'. Projectleider Dysselsdorp CAC.

So easy to implement

'I am very impressed with the work done to make the model so easy to implement'. Social Worker, Department of Social Development

Disneyland

'Alnoor is a registered orphanage in Woodstock, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa, taking in mostly underprivileged children from different religious groups in the Western Cape. The Home started using the Stichting Projecten Zuid-Africa’s Holiday Schools Model in June 2009.The Stichting Projecten Zuid-Afrika’s Holiday School Model comes with an easy to implement manual that takes one through all the steps. Alnoor has followed the programme step by step with a few adaptations and it is with great pleasure to endorse it as a child friendly, easy to implement and cost effective model that ensures that every child enjoys a fun filled holiday. Caregivers and volunteers are happy using the model and are urging other institutions to use it too. The principles underlying this model are African (not foreign) and are founded on respect, fairness and justice. Alnoor will continue using the model as long as it cannot afford to take the children to Disneyland.' Amina Manka’a, Director Alnoor Orphanage

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