Looking back over this last year, there are three big things that have been happening at SHAWCO. Together they have been transforming the look of SHAWCO.

The first is the level and sophistication of operations in the education and tutoring sector. In the past, there were 8 student projects serving a number of different constituencies, like seniors, disabled children, tutoring, or vegetable gardens. Many of these operated in splendid isolation, often quite unaware of what was happening in other projects. From 2006 there has been a larger coherent plan which has pulled 15 projects together. The plan is to produce learners who have the ability to enter tertiary education when they matriculate. With this goal in mind, the education sector has engaged the Schools Development Unit at UCT to aid in upgrading curricula, and produced a bound curriculum handbook. Those of you who have in the past hurriedly patched together lesson plans on the bus going out to Khayelitsha, will recognize the huge importance of this. In addition the project committees and their liaisons with the Steering Committee, have been substantially redesigned, and SHAWCO has recently re-instituted the post of a senior Operations Officer to coordinate and back up these activities.

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