Mathmoms Npc

MathMoms is a women's initiative powered by nurturing love that builds confident communities one maths empowered child at a time. We have three overarching aims:(i) improving the academic results of foundation phase learners;(ii) employing and training unemployed women; and creating safe spaces with healthy, continuous relationships, thereby healing trauma and building resilient communities. MathMoms was founded in response to challenges faced by our communities - gangsterism, unemployment - and the desire to tell a different kind of story - one of hope, of communities that care. We achieve our aims through weekly training sessions (for the women), and teaching Grade 2-4 learners maths and literacy skills in extra lessons. From a small beginning in 2016, when we piloted our programme at a school in Elsies River, we've grown to 17 schools with 12 Mentors, 53 MathMoms, 25 interns and an estimated learners in 2020. In 2020 we scaled to other communities, with a new YearBeyond intern programme at schools in Bishop Lavis, in partnership with the Department of Sport and Culture’s After School Office. In 2020, our Grade 2 programme was rolled out at schools in the Rawsonville area. We aim to have 13 Mentors, 70 Moms, 60 interns, and 1600 learners involved this year.