Nutrition

One of the problems facing students is lack of adequate daily nutrition. Some children come to school without having had even breakfast - a common story across Africa. This has a huge impact on the student's capacity to concentrate in class and subsquently their academic potential .

Epap is a fortified maize meal that contains all the vitamins and minerals that growing bodies and brains need. You simply add a few spoons to an existing meal or make a meal of it separately and it doesn't need any complicated preparation. Our aim is to give everybody an epap meal at the start of everyday. For 66 Rand (aprox US$8) /child/month we can meet the daily nutritional needs of our students.

Beginnings of RTP

Our relationship with the Rooiberg community started when one of our committee members had a house in the area about 10 years ago. We became involved in supporting the primary school by setting up the nursery school and helping them both with resources and capacity building. Often this took the form of moral support and ideas and suggestions.
When the high school opened in 2006 we formalised our supported by forming the Rooiberg Tirisano Project NGO. We visit the school every 6 weeks and continue to offer resources, support and capacity building.

Where is Rooiberg?

Rooiberg is a small town 245km from Joburg. The population is no more than 1000 people. It is in Limpopo Province, the northern most province in South Africa. Limpopo borders Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Welcome

Welcome to our new communication tool for all our news. We hope this will be a place for our supporters to keep in touch with our project. Please feel free to pass this link on to family and friends that might be interested in learning more about us. We hope to add new information regularly so that everyone can feel as excited as we often do about the progress being made at the school.