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Symphonia for South Africa


Symphonia for South Africa (SSA) is a national NPO & PBO, based in Bellville, working to strengthen the social fabric of society through building social cohesion, igniting citizen engagement, and empowering large scale social change particularly, but not only, in the field of education.

In 2010 they established a ground-breaking initiative called School @ the Centre of Community (S@CC), an initiative aimed at creating thriving schools at the centre of the communities they serve.

The S@CC project pairs struggling Principals with business leaders, resulting in positive impacts on those directly involved and the community at large.

With a vision to build a ‘country that works for all’, Symphonia for South Africa has committed itself to working alongside all stakeholders to ‘quality education for all children in South Africa by 2022.’  The S@CC project facilitates partnerships between schools and businesses.

Within the S@CC initiative, several programmes have been established. The two most active to date are:

  • Partnerships for Possibility (PfP), which pairs school principals with business executives in a two-way learning relationship. Business leaders and school principals develop their leadership skills in a co-learning and co-operative partnership. The project engages students, teachers, parents and the broader community and has resulted in schools experiencing an upward spiral of real change and a sense of possibility.  This project is accredited by the Department of Business and Finance at the University of the Western Cape on a NQF level 6.
  • Community of Learning Principals (CoLP), which partners with the University of the Western Cape and the SA Principals Association to offer leadership and management training (at a NQF 6 level) to school principals and leaders from throughout the Western Cape.

SSA is also committed to “building social cohesion and partnerships” across the public, private and civil society sectors and seeks to “strengthen community development and citizen engagement” in communities across Southern Africa.

In order to achieve these goals, SSA has developed a community building workshop that is offered throughout South Africa. This two-day workshop is based on a unique methodology developed by national and international thought-leaders from the field of community development and social change.

Quality education for all children in South Africa by 2022





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