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Edu-Aid Objective
Edu-Aid is committed to improve quality of education in Southern Africa by offering affordable functional educational aids to every learner, educator and parent.
To guarantee accessibility to:
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foundation phase learners
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learners in need of support
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adults wanting to improve their functional literacy
by means of an approved, functional & tested educational aid covering life skills, numeracy, literacy & HIV AIDS awareness in Southern Africa.
Market Analysis
ESL ( English Second Language )
As Asia, Britain & the East, recruit hundreds of South African qualified educators per year to teach their ESL learners, South Africa developed a shortage of ESL educators & an ever increasing number of ESL learners. South Africa has +12 million learners, of which the vast majority don't have English as their mother tongue.
Edu-Aid developed the South African aid - the TraceMat – suited for not only the South African foundation phase ESL learner, but also learners in need of support, and adults wanting to improve their functional literacy.
The Need
To offer all foundation phase learners, irrespective of ethnic origin or language, much needed exposure to an approved and effective educational aid which provides a standard grounding to all users.
Educators and administrators have unanimously identified the need for South African, customized, and affordable educational aids.
Parents, schools, businesses and corporations alike should actively participate, support and fund basic education as they will benefit directly from their involvement.
The Product - TraceMat
Learner Aid
Tracemat - Printed size A3 (297mm x 420mm).
A “dry wipe” pen
Full range of TraceMats Available ( Grades R / 0; 1; 2; 3.)
 
Grade R Literacy and Numeracy combined
 
Grade 1 Literacy and Numeracy combined
 
Grade 2 Literacy and Numeracy combined
Origin of the Product
The need for ESL classroom aids have been identified in interviews with experienced educators, who were redeployed to teach ESL learners. None of the learners listed English as their mother tongue and 25 % of the learners had never before heard or spoken English.
"We have to educate learners in English that have never heard or spoken the language before"... Karen Engelbrecht - Grade 1 Teacher.
The Pilot Project
Over the past 4 years, Edu-Aid researched, developed, tested and finalized its . . .
Features
Edu-Aid Tracemats were developed for South African ESL foundation phase learners by South African educators and features:
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sound education base covering both literacy and numeracy
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Curriculum 2005 typeface and compatibility,
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colour visual and phonetic enforcement,
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low cost and durability,
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simple and effective application,
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relatively little additional training requirements,
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marketing and sponsor usefulness,
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language versatility and personalization capabilities,
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creation of a sense of belonging and high morale amongst pupils,
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establishment of a climate conducive to and desire for learning,
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left and right spatial orientation,
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forming of letters and numbers by tracing them on the TraceMat,
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expanding vocabulary,
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exposure of pupils to lower and upper case letters,
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basic shapes or concepts,
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capacity to incorporate basic principles, including etiquette,
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health and religion,
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exposure of pupils to primary and secondary colours,
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counting and fractions, and
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incorporation of national, school or sponsored value themes.
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HIV AIDS awareness
Add-on Training Aids to Complete the Project
Other Edu-Aid Products available:
Classroom aids & posters :
- President portrait
- National symbols, flag & Anthem
- The world
- Africa
- Picture Alphabet ( a - z; 0 - 9 )
- Arrows
- Religion aids
- Critical outcomes
- Birthday chart
- To Do List
- Seasons
- Shapes
- Sequence
- Clock / Watch
- etc - we design and print anything you need - just ask !
Community Development by Business Enterprises
Business Enterprises become directly involved in social and community development and commit to :
Uplifting the most needy sectors of South Africa’s diverse society.
Helping, Empowering, Advocating (defending), Rewarding and Teaching (HEART) local communities by simply eliminating illiteracy and providing the population with the tools to become self-sufficient and self-sustained.
Creating the capacity for further training, education and employment of a literate and numerate population.
“... No adult South African citizen should be illiterate in the 21stcentury, but millions will be unless we mobilize a social movement to bring reading, writing and numeracy to those who do not have it. At present millions of South African adults and young people cannot read or write in any language, and millions more are functionally illiterate and innumerate, that is they cannot put their reading and writing skills to any useful purpose and cannot manipulate numerical concepts...”
Professor Kadar Asmal, Minister of Education, 27 July 1999.
Edu-Aid educational aids offer great benefit to adult literacy and numeracy training programmes in the workplace & institutions like mines and correctional services.
Business Involvement (Sponsorship)
Edu-Aid TraceMats are funded through donations & sponsorships.
* The cost to furnish one Classroom with full colour aids & provide 45 learners with their own TraceMat & Dry wipe pen is a mere US $ 8.00 per learner.
Sponsorship can be restricted or expanded to incorporate:
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A single class of approximately 45 learners;
or a school with 4 to 7 classes, excluding or including the parents;
or any number of schools in a region;
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All the grade one learners in South Africa;
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All the grade R, 1, 2, & 3 learners in South Africa;
or adult learner groups;
or correctional Service or other institutions or a sector of an institution;
or schools in a region in a joint venture with other sponsors;
or a specific project in a sponsor’s work environment.
Benefit to Sponsors
Create / promote brand / product awareness amongst pupils / parents / educators / population with TraceMats and educators’ aids;
Participate in selected schools / areas / regions only;
Effectively address social and community responsibilities and building goodwill.
Contact us
Contact Person: André Trollip
Fax: 0123498562
19 Toscantia, 230 Issie Smuts street, Constantia park, RSA.
P.O. Box 25948, Monumentpark, 0105, SOUTH AFRICA |
