The acronym L.E.A.R.N is derived from the following founding principles of our organization, being:
LEADERSHIP. EDUCATION. ABILITY. RESPECT. NATION AT WORK
Non-Profit classification as per the Department of Social Development, South Africa
Registration No.: 136-136 NPO.
Development and Housing, Employment and Training, Vocational Counselling and Voluntary Association Registered on 08/05/2014
Introduction
The L.E.A.R.N Foundation was established in 2010 in Kwa-Makhutha Township in KwaZulu-Natal. The major objective of The L.E.A.R.N Foundation is to provide extra support classes for learners doing their matric for highly critical but most failed subjects such as Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Accounting. The foundation aims to enhance the academic potential of learners in the province by providing quality extra tuition and revision classes for struggling learners following a strict timetable.
The L.E.A.R.N Foundation is a ground-breaking, innovative idea that supplements regular tuition with an intensive revision program to improve the pass rates in the most failed subjects namely: Maths, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Accounting.
From humble beginnings, this organization was formed in 2010 to address the problem of a high failure rate in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Accounting. This was becoming a serious problem in Kwa-Makhutha Township in KwaZulu-Natal because the poor results saw many young girls and boys failing to be admitted at tertiary institutions like Universities.
Furthermore, the school dropout rate was becoming high because of the perception that these subjects were too complicated. The L.E.A.R.N Foundation was formed to achieve several objectives namely
(i) to improve the pass rates in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Accounting not only in Kwa-Makhutha Township but at uMlazi District as a whole and in many places of the province of KwaZulu-Natal by hiring private tutors to provide support revision and tuition classes.
(ii) To uplift and instill the importance and value of education in our young children who are the future leaders of South Africa.
(iii) To instill moral values and leadership skills in the learners. (iv) To reach out to learners from disadvantaged learners coming from poverty-stricken households, orphans, and child-headed households coming from both rural and township environments who require effort not only educationally but also through the provision of recreational facilities and role modeling.
We are equally mindful that it’s such particular effort that will meaningfully inspire a sense of purpose where there is no hope, create a generation of constructive and goal-driven children and produce well-rounded and functioning adults who contribute to the legacy of creating a safe, stable, and prosperous country where every citizen is driven towards excellence in whatever they do for their communities.
We align ourselves with those who seek to do all that must be done to improve matric pass rates in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Accounting thereby eliminates hopelessness in our learners and opening boundless opportunities for them in the world, bringing out the potential in our learners and in so doing avoiding the fatal consequences of hopelessness such as socio-political instability.