Giving Back
GT Treasured Lives Foundation is a Non-Profit Company (NPC), duly registered in terms of the laws of South Africa in 2011, although its work was started in 2004 when we would visit schools to motivate learners and teachers, visit orphanages to give with time and resources, and visit communities to help impact and empower the people including in our neighbouring country, Botswana. The idea was very people centric- to go around and help people to know better, do better and achieve better in life. It was then that through many sad situations, a huge need for empowerment was realised and the passion kept burning even more.
With more passion, search for purpose and finally finding it, GT Treasured Lives Foundation was born. Since then, the company has been reaching more and more learners, students and youth through coaching, mentorship program, empowerment sessions, community development and linking youths to opportunities like internships, bursaries, learnerships and jobs to better their lives.
GT Treasured Lives Foundation is a wholly education, youth, and women empowerment entity that focuses on transforming lives whilst ensuring that the family unit remains intact. We also focus on strategic projects where companies share their vision and goals, and we implement projects on their behalf. Our 5 strategic pillars are education, youth, women, technology, and strategic projects. The company has wealth of relationships and skills including legal, technology, project management, finance, actuary, and business.
The passion and impact of the foundation is evident, even through the pioneer and leader, Treasure. She amongst other things ran a corporate giving back programme for Africa at Ernst & Young in 2015 and 2016, This included taking care of company’s giving back programs throughout Africa, over 160 girls nationally (SA), including mentorship, tuition, bursaries, and additional 20 schools in Gauteng, Kwa Zulu Natal and Western Cape. The program was worth Millions. This is an example of the foundation’s commitment to transformation of lives.
The family unit in South Africa has been facing enormous challenges to an extent that it has somehow succumbed and near extinction. Consequently, there is a lot of social ills ranging from crime, women abuse and gender-based violence. Statistics have shown that a woman or a child is raped every 3 minutes in South Africa. We believe that when we empower a woman, we empower the family and therefore the whole community. We therefore with our combined experience and relationships do training, workshops and raise awareness on issues including family values, different pieces of legislation and create access and systems that bring valuable impact and change.
On the other hand, the education system is not reaching the rural villages and informal settlements fast enough. Schools are dilapidated and without basic infrastructure and equipment for an environment conducive for learning. Most schools do not have basic libraries, computers and science Purpose labs, and often text books arrive late, therefore affecting learners in such areas. Children are also not able to enter tertiary education because they do not have application fees and registration fees. This is in addition to disadvantaged situations they find themselves in. It is in this view that Treasured Lives embarked on the program to provide a solution to the above, with the purpose of transforming these lives for the better.
The foundation has already started reuniting families, coaching women including those who have been through gender based violence, coaching and mentoring village children and youth to see beyond their situations, know better and do better. Some of them are now working, some are in universities, and we are proud of our young ladies doing very well in courses that are mostly male dominated, proving that education and empowering women is key. We also adopted seven schools in the deep villages in North-West province that saw most schools coming from below 50% to achieve A results, and we seek to roll out the projects nationally by 2025.
The Treasured Women Network has also decided to fully rally behind the foundation and provide for basic needs for children like pads, school uniform and each member is going to through the foundation, adopt a high school where they matriculated, allowing us to reach more children and help with their education and related situations.
Just Imagine!
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Imagine a place where every child has access to good relevant and necessary education. -
Imagine a place where every young person has access to a computer and can use it from an early age. -
Imagine a place where every child has good training, great mindset, strong believe that they can do it, and is motivated to succeed. -
Imagine these great young people in different places with great computer centres with internet connectivity. -
Imagine all these different great minds in their different villages, small towns and even big cities connected to the internet and daily or weekly all at once listening to different motivators telling them how powerful, great and brilliant they are; and helping them to succeed in all their different life focus. -
Imagine all the STEM teachers and learners from across the country logging on to the internet a the same time to listen to an expert STEM teacher breaking it down for them, and getting interactive and understanding. -
Imagine all the children in far disadvantages areas without teachers being able to join these sessions and still do brilliantly, regardless of situations around them. -
Imagine these young lives having great online support from online teachers and more learners enjoying Science, Technology, Engineering related subjects and Mathematics. -
Imagine a country where every child, every youth have access to internet, education and great mentorship to make it in life. -
Imagine a place where even great, powerful, relevant tertiary education and training is available online. -
Imagine this excellent and relevant education and training giving birth to great young people who can ‘easily’ get and create jobs -
Imagine this place, this country, this continent, our education system…transformed. -
Imagine… every child, every young person…transformed and independent… armed and able to transform more lives. -
Imagine the difference you will make by contributing to making this possible. -
Imagine…
We have started. We need your support. We need partners, finances or equivalent resources and help to make all these possible. Please contact us if you believe in this vision, and are willing to help, sponsor, donate and / or work with us. We are because You are. Also, do call us if you need our help. Thank you.
Contact Details:
info@unlimitedtreasure.co.za
info@gttreasuredlives.com