"I was a barefoot township urchin. I went to school where there were no desks. We sat on benches and the teacher asked us to write, we knelt down on the floor and used the benches we had been sitting on as desks... I wish TutuDesks had been available in my day!"
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Email: info@kommunitygroup.com
Tel: +27 11 466 9111 (South Africa)
Fax: +27 11 466 7980 (South Africa)
Kommunity Group Projects© exists to serve the primary goal of providing educational upliftment and niche social development within underprivileged schools and community environments across the African continent.
Utilising a mix of proprietary, ‘low tech’ products, combined with a series of unique service applications, Kommunity Group Projects© creates unique communication and intervention opportunities for our supporters within the emerging youth market segment for our supporters.
Functional literacy is almost impossible to achieve without an effective writing surface.
A division of Kommunity Education©, The Kommunity Desk Company© offers a proven, portable product solution to the prevailing challenge of classroom desk shortages in African classrooms, both of which are aligned with 4 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals through national and international pillar partners. In excess of a million learners across South Africa and Africa have already benefitted from our work over the past few years, previously under The Lapdesk Company banner. 4 million South African and approximately 95 million African children do not yet have a classroom desk, a challenge we aim to solve by 2015 with the Q3 2011 launch of The Archbishop Tutu 2015 Campaign©, the goal of which is to ensure that 20 million African learners receive their very own Tutudesk©.
The launch of The Archbishop Tutu 2015 Campaign© in Q3 2011 will provide individual donors globally with the online opportunity to support a child with a sponsored TutuDesk©, thus acting as a further means of assisting our children with the upliftment and development of their educational experience.
Sport is a vital part of human and social development, most especially amongst the youth.
More than 50% of South African schools and an estimated 75% of African schools have little or no sporting infrastructure in place, and our Kommunity Group Projects© Sport division is addressing this challenge in South African and African schools by providing our unique, patented Kommunity Sport in a Box© to affected schools and learners. From introductory to advanced levels, and endorsed by Prof. Tim Noakes and the Department of Sport & Recreation, Kommunity Sport in a Box© is the first new sport invented in more than a century (Pi-ball) as well as offering development in at least 5 different sporting codes.
Kommunity Sport in a Box© also doubles up as an important educational tool, providing educational games (including maths literacy) and disease-related information and management education (HIV-AIDS, TB, Malaria etc.
South Africa is facing challenging and escalating skills shortages and an estimated 70% of learners in South African high schools do not have access to effective career guidance counselling or career-related information.
The Human Capital division of Kommunity Group Projects© offers the unique, Africa-first Kommunity Career Handbook©, providing South African Grade 9 and Grade 12 learners with a book-based, self-guided subject and career guidance system (developed in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch). Kommunity Career Handbook© clarifies the issue of subject selection requirements for Grade 9’s, clarifies study options for Grade 12’s (tertiary, trade and FET) and dramatically demystifies the issue of bursary application and process for these learners, whilst additionally offering basic life skills information.
Participating sponsors benefit through the opportunity to communicate directly with and create high visibility of their organisation amongst emerging youth, additionally communicating career opportunities and skills requirements within their organisation. Additional sponsor benefits include early talent selection and comprehensive database access, as well as benefits derived from supporting a nation-development initiative without peer.
To assist in de-risking our sponsors bursary sponsorship programmes (ie. university drop out of sponsored learners) we offer full psychometric testing through Headspace Assessments©, relative to bursary allocation and choice, commensurate with client brief.
Kommunity Group Projects© Lifestyle division offers strategic access to the youth segment (18 to 35 years) with our patented Condom Case©.
A collaboration between Kommunity Group Projects© and the Condom Case™ Corporation, our Kommunity Lifestyle© division offers unique branding and market access opportunities for sponsors. Utilising an endorsed and proven solution to HIV-AIDS prevention, addressing the issue of safe condom storage and supporting effective condom habits and usage, Condom Case© is ideally and uniquely positioned save lives and to contribute to the fight against HIV-AIDS.
Offering our supporters professional and accountable community access is the core objective of our Kommunity Group Projects© Integrator division. We have conducted more than 3,000 school and community interventions since 2005, and Kommunity Integrator© offers our supporters the benefit of our vast field operations experience within the youth market segment: for research, brand intervention and new product launch initiatives, relative to client brief and budget requirements.
With each ‘Integration’ being customised to clearly defined objectives and parameters, clients are ensured that the results they seek from their interventions in the youth segment are always achieved: professionally, within budget and on time – every time!