Eeesay Project's winning high schools

Thembela High School

Led by Teach A Man To Fish (TAMTF) in partnership with Wessa (Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa), Eeesay provides a pathway to youth employment and poverty reduction through learner-led school-businesses in two provinces of South Africa.

The Eeesay Programme provides step-by-step experiential learning to students where they have identified business opportunities, applied sound business planning, and implemented robust business plans to generate profit. The businesses have been a platform for enabling learners to develop and improve the essential skills they need to flourish in the world of work and further study.

In the past week their efforts have been rewarded and recognised at the final annual celebration events in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, where they showcased their businesses.

Amazulu High School

Eeesay Winners

Best Business Plan

• Thembela High School (KwaZulu-Natal)
  
• Joe Slovo High School (Eastern Cape)

Best Environmentally Sustainable School Business

• Cathcart High School (Eastern Cape)

  Runners up:
  

• Endakane High School (KwaZulu-Natal)
  
• Vuselela High School (Eastern Cape)

Best Overall Business 2017-2019

• Amazulu High School (KwaZulu-Natal)
  
• Byletts High School (Eastern Cape)

  Runners up:
  

• Amahlubi High School (KwaZulu-Natal)
  
• WB Rubusana High School (Eastern Cape)

Best Annual Report Poster

• Phendukani High School (KwaZulu-Natal)
  
• Phakamani High School (Eastern Cape)

In recognition of learners’ drive and determination to succeed

• DNC Combined School; Mana High School; and Sesiyabonga High School (KwaZulu-Natal)
  
• Nompumelelo High School; Ncedolwethu Senior Secondary; and Bulelani High School (Eastern Cape)

The project was made possible through funding provided by the European Union Delegation to South Africa and private foundations. Eeesay gave 4000 learners from 35 schools (in the Amajuba and Uthukela districts in KwaZulu-Natal and Amathole and Chris Hani districts in the Eastern Cape provinces) an opportunity to gain practical business skills by setting up and running an educational and environmentally-sustainable enterprise at their school over a period of three years.