Projects
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We operate in all provinces in South Africa as well as around the world (our products have been used in over 75 countries and have been translated into 18 languages). We work in partnership with many South African NGOs and with the Department of Education.
Projects in South Africa
We at the Institute are passionately patriotic and proudly South African - but we are not possessive! We love South Africa and spend hours thinking about what we can do to assist with making this country even more fabulous than it already is.
Our particular enthusiasm is around entrepreneurship, job creation, changing mindsets towards better ways of learning and thinking up creative ways to convey information to ensure learning takes place – while having fun!
We are also very keen on partnerships. There are so many wonderful organizations we have worked with over the years – funding partners as well as other amazing NGOs doing incredible work in their fields.
Because we work primarily in the sectors of manufacture, retail, agriculture, tourism, craft businesses and education (primary, secondary and tertiary) we have developed many friendships over the years – both locally and internationally.
Because the issues around entrepreneurship and business training are common to the missions of so many organizations both in South Africa and internationally – and because the need for methodologies that are appropriate to the particular target groups is so critical – SAIE’s has had the wonderful opportunity to share its materials and methodologies with many organizations and in the process has been enormously enriched by these relationships.
In South Africa our current partners are Tsiba University in the Western Cape, TRAC in Mpumalanga, Umthathi in the Eastern Cape, Heifer in KZN, Siyasizisa in KZN, Food and Trees in Gauteng, Soil for Life in the Western Cape, Sparrow Schools in Gauteng, Sibanye in the Western Cape, Abalimi in the Western Cape, schools and education departments in all 9 provinces and also at the Department of Education. In addition we are supported currently by ABSA, JP Morgan, Astrapak, Media 24, Foschini, SAB, Coronation Fund Managers, Pick ‘n Pay, BATSA, Greater Good SA, Allan and Nesta Ferguson, the NDA, DG Murray Trust, the Solstice Foundation, Umsobomvu, SEDA, Deutsche Bank and SASOL.
We have many other partners with whom we are in discussion on other possible projects ranging from the provision of entrepreneurship for call centres, AIDS projects, leadership development and many others.
International Projects
Internationally we have had a range of partners over the years including the ILO (UN)based in Geneva, GTZ in Germany, CentroCape in Brazil, CEFeNET in the Philippines, EcoVentures International, (http://www.eco-ventures.org), Hope HIV Africa (http://www.hopehiv.org), Making Cents based in the USA and the University of Essex in the UK. various other partners have used SAIE's products for Training of trainers (TOT).
