MASICORP helping a township in South Africa help itself Masiphumelele Library - Ground breaking ceremony for the new extension Masiphumelele Library - Staff, volunteers and Founders

 

 

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Volunteering at the Library

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MASICORP - About us...

"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveller; that the purpose of the world is not ‘to have and to hold’ but ‘to give and to serve’. There can be no other meaning."


-Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

 

Staff and Volunteers


MASICORP could not operate without our volunteers. Here are a few words about just some of them:

  • In the Bursary Programme we have a team, led by Jill, of experienced mentors for each student – they guide and counsel students on what can be a very difficult and different path for them in an education outside of Masiphumelele.
  • A local accountant, Elize, keeps our books, manages our accounts and acts as paymaster for the many needs of our various programmes. She also helps mentor the bursary students and she manages our building and micro-finance facility – ‘The Bank of Masiphumelele!’Computer Class
  • There is an American woman from California, a South African woman from The Cape and an Englishman who lives part time in London who all teach computer skills to more than 80 class participants every week.
  • We have Jo, our volunteer who manages our primary school uniform programme – up to 70 children every year are provided with a uniform. They come from families so poor they cannot afford a uniform or shoes.
  • Katherine – well, she teaches on our ‘Thinking Skills’ programme, she looks after our sports programme and its sports coach and she teaches the recorder to budding Masiphumelele musicians.Jane Philippi
  • There are several volunteers, led by ‘dynamic Jane’ helping us support and mentor our enterprise recipients who are running their own small businesses. ‘dynamic Jane’ – an American who achieves quite amazing progress in only a month or two of her annual visits.Sue, Millie and the Masiphumelele Library Team
  • We also have several retired teachers who provide support for small groups at the township school as well as providing help and support for our bursary students.
  • The inspirational Sue has made the Library an award-winning success - she is assisted by Milli who helps manage the huge team of volunteers who work in the various outreach programmes.