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  • UCT Online High School Launches Game-Changing Rural Initiative

    10 Dec 2021 by Jasmine Stone in Education, Lifestyle, Partners, South Africa, University Of Cape Town, Valenture Institute
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    The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the University of Cape Town’s Online High School have partnered on an initiative that aims to accelerate access to Online Learning, particularly for girl children in rural areas.

    In its pilot phase, set for the 2022 school calendar, this important collaboration will focus on the communities of the Valley of a 1000 Hills, about 50 kilometres northwest of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal. 

    The Valley of a 1000 Hills is plagued by high levels of poverty, with approximately 48 to 50% in unemployment rates, and limited access to quality education for the large majority. The area is also considered one of the major epicentres of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, with HIV infection rates as high as 40% or more in some communities in the area. The majority of the homes are informal dwellings, without adequate basic services such as water, sanitation and refuse removal – though a growing number now have electricity and piped water.

    It is this fragile ecosystem that contributes to the general undernourishment, poor health, and emotional and physical insecurities plaguing the area. Many children have only one meal a day at school and are often deprived of the necessary resources to pursue quality education.

    Not only does a quality basic education offer a vital lifeline for their future, but it is also a fundamental basic human right, as chartered by the SAHRC Charter on Children’s Basic Education Rights (2012). 

    The pilot phase of this partnership will facilitate access to a quality online high school education through UCT Online High School for up to 14 students in the Valley of a 1000 Hills. 

    It is of great symbolic significance that the ‘SAHRC UCT Online High School Rural Initiative’ should be launched in line with International Human Rights Day, on December 10, 2021. The theme for the 2021 Human Rights Day is “Equality: Reducing Inequalities, Advancing Human Rights”. This theme directly relates to Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which instructs that “all human beings are born free and are equal in dignity and rights”.

    Noting this theme, the Online High School Rural Initiative is in direct confrontation with impediments to equality. It is an intentional encounter with the continued historic, systematic, and socio-economic conditions that contribute to the gendered challenges faced by girls in rural areas, in their quest for quality education.

    Here’s Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, UCT Vice-Chancellor:

    “The UCT Online High School’s mission is to create new opportunities for learners throughout South Africa to choose an aspirational school regardless of their circumstances. We are thrilled to collaborate with the SAHRC on this important initiative to level the playing field with an innovative education model, and create access to high-quality schooling for all.”  

    The ‘SAHRC UCT Online High School Rural Initiative’ has a mission to promote equal access to basic education (particularly for the girl child), provide advocacy for online education, advocate for policy and legislative changes to promote online education, and ensure the most vulnerable are not left behind in the migration to online education.

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