As we sit to write this letter our hearts are pounding with excitement and emotion, mostly because we know exactly how much lives can change because of your assistance.

We understand that this is a very difficult time for both the public and private sectors, and we totally understand the wide range of emotions that the adoption process makes people feel. We hope that our experience can guide us all and assist in this process. We have learned that once you connect, start to talk and get to know each other it gets a bit easier and the process starts to become more real and less scary. 

 Intaba Ka Vuba Development Foundation (IDF) Adopt-A-School, Adopt-A-Child campaign points out that Townships potential Engineers, Scientists, Mathematicians, Medical Doctors, Geologists, Philosophers, Lawyers and Artists are in our schools, but they may not have a chance to pursue their dreams due to economic difficulty. Their parents dream of a better life for their children, and strive hard to provide well for them, but in many cases, even just the provision of food for each household’s table is already a struggle.

 The government allots the biggest share of the national budget to public education, but the amount still cannot keep up with the increasing student population. There are even more children who are out on the streets and who must be shepherded into the schools, but government resources are simply not enough to provide them the free, quality education to which they are all entitled.

We need generous hearts in the private sector to realize the spirit of this objective and the purpose of providing a venue for the strong and dynamic private sector to participate in nation-building through investments in the education of South Africa children. The rewards of such investments come through an educated generation that will succeed ours, run our enterprises, and steer this nation to greater heights. Over the years, Department of Education introduced interventions to reduce student dropouts and keep the youth off the streets. It has sought to increase student achievement levels and improve teacher performance.

It continues to bring the issues and needs of public education to every South African who cares, in an effort to invite each and everyone to help boost education opportunities for our young.

IDF sincerely invites all members of private entities, the corporations and individuals to accept our offer of active partnership in the noble goal of educating all South Africans. Education is the key to national growth. With Adopt-A-School, Adopt-A-Child, each South African can have the opportunity to enjoy ones right to education, to open one’s eyes to the wonders and challenges of the world, to pursue one’s dreams, and to contribute capably towards the nation’s progress. Every South African child deserves to finish school. Every South African deserves the benefits of an education. This nation needs an educated citizenry.