It is with great pleasure to share our 2019 Annual Report with all the Donors, Partners, Friends and Sponsors. We are also very happy that we turned 5 years in 2019. This report communicates our organisational impact, from all the programmes and operations to effective partnerships with all our feeder schools. We would also like to extend […]
Struggles on the Ground: #Afterschool programmes confronted with COVID-19
In accordance to the World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 is a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has been confirmed as the causative virus of COVID-19. To date. COVID-19 has become a global pandemic that continues to spread across the globe, it appears to remain largely in refutation about the scale of the […]
COVID-Catastrophe on Class of 2020
The voice that you hear in the wilderness is not the voice of John the Baptist, asking the citizens of Jordan to repent, it is rather the voice of a child’s melancholy over the epidemic coronavirus. The outcry pleads for a solution to curb the spread of the virus so that he can adjust the […]
Will Community Based Organisations (CBOs) survive the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a lot of feelings and thoughts with it. Two weeks ago, I am most certain that everyone especially in the communities I serve were only worried about ‘earning a living’, however, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought about a new psychological shift to ‘staying alive’. When everyone is worried about […]
COVID-19… learning continues remotely at PYMA
It’s important that we all respond responsibly and transparently to health precautions during this outbreak times of COVID-19, at PYMA we value the safety of our learners, staff and partners. Following the recent precautionary measures of the novel Coronavirus that is termed #COVID19, PYMA has strategized on a vast plethora of Online initiatives that will […]
Message to the Class of 2019, Mr. Sibusiso Zungu, PYMA Board Chairman
There are different historical points of departure for education globally and especially the schooling system. The community has had a major role in the history of education starting with teaching young people how to look after their families, the land and livestock. Over the centuries, education has changed from being passed down generationally to having […]
PYMA feedback from Mrs. Abrahams
Phakamani Young Minds Academy is an innovative, creative and much needed organisation. They focus not only on academics but the child as a whole. This makes them different to other tutoring services. Boekenhout formally became part of their programme in 2017, although learners from our school, residing in Freedom Park, have been attending their sessions […]
Message from our Executive Director, Bokang Mokoena
Since 2014, the Phakamani Young Minds Academy has been dedicated to growth and impact, it started only with a group of twelve (12) learner’s coming for dance lessons and the idea of Phakamani Young Academy evolved and extended after a great achievement of the first class obtaining an excellent pass of 100% for learners within […]