School-Days, Dis-Chem award R100k in bursaries

14 Feb 2019

To celebrate the launch of the Dis-Chem For Youth card, School-Days recently gave four young South Africans - who are the winners of its bursary competition - R25,000 bursaries to use towards education fees. The Dis-Chem For Youth card is a new Dis-Chem rewards programme tailored to 18-25 year-olds.

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The first to win a R25,000 School-Days bursary was 21-year-old Ayesha Cloete. Cloete is going to use the bursary to pay for her final year of studies towards becoming a foundation phase teacher at the University of the Western Cape in Bellville. She said: “This bursary will help me cover a large chunk of my university fees for the academic year, which is a relief for me.”

Jade Dilley was the second R25,000 bursary recipient. She is studying towards an LLB degree at NMMU in Port Elizabeth. Dilley has been using a student loan to fund her studies, and she says it is a real struggle for her family to find the money for university fees each year. The R25,000 bursary will pay towards her studies this year.

Amberleigh Viljoen was November’s School-Days bursary recipient. She is a student teacher of music at the Hosanna Creative Arts Music Centre in Roodepoort, studying part-time to advance her academic music training. The bursary will be carefully set aside to ensure that she can continue to grow the bursary for her two-year-old son’s school years.

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The final bursary winner was 23-year-old Carey-Ann Jane. She completed her Early Childhood Development N6 at Cape Town College. Early in 2018, Jane applied for an internship student post with Multichoice at their Montessori school in Randburg.

She was accepted, with the proviso that she enrolled with the South African Montessori Association and furthered her studies from March this year... at the cost of R58,000 for the next 18 months. Jane has been saving every Rand that she can to pursue her teaching career.

Joining School-Days

Not all students are eligible for traditional academic, sporting and cultural bursaries. But anyone can build a School-Days bursary to pay towards their family’s education fees. When you shop at School-Days partners (like Dis-Chem), you get a percentage of your spend added to your personal education bursary.

There are also a number of other ways to build your bursary, such as direct contributions and benefiting when friends and family spend at our partners. Click here to join School-Days and start building a bursary for your family’s education.