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Welcome to the Media24 Rachel's Angels
The Rachel’s Angels empowerment project aims to contribute towards the building of excellence in high school education in the
Western Cape. The programme includes regular campus visits, attending lectures and exposure to the world of business in the form of an entrepreneurial day, where learners are required to develop business plans and run a small business. Through this process – experiential learning, mentoring by peers, exposure to academic life and the realities of the business world – students and learners are taught skills that will adequately equip them to play a meaningful role in society.
With this website, we aim to keep you informed and motivated. Visit us regularly to see what the learners and mentors have been up to. Every second month we will also feature an interview with someone who has inspired us.
To all the students and mentors, you are now part of Rachel's Angels. We invite you to join us in a very unique adventure. This is your chance to discover and develop yourself in the company of people who take pleasure in helping others; people who have chosen excellence as a lifestyle.
So, take the chance, give a little of yourself and you will enjoy the well-deserved fruits of your efforts.
All the best,
Prof Rachel Jafta
Department of Economics,
University of
Stellenbosch
Programme highlights
Launched at the beginning of 2007, it has already successfully completed its first year, after which:
- A total of 16 successful schools were issued with certificates of entitlement to empowerment shares amounting to R725 000 at current value.
- A total of 105 mentors were issued with certificates of entitlement to empowerment shares amounting to R1 050 000 at current value.
- This will entitle participating schools and students (as mentors) to about R1 775 000 shares in total for the period 2007.
- This programmes reaches 75% Afrikaans schools and 25% English schools
- Focus areas: Peninsula and Boland 2008/9
- 112 learners and 100 student mentors are participated in the 2008/9 programme.
Rachel's Angels sponsors Lydia and Vesta for the 2010 RAG
During January the streets of Stellenbosch come alive with a buzz of excitement and activities as the first year students arrive in droves to pursue their tertiary dreams. This year the Media 24 Rachel’s Angels formed a part of these festivities. The Trust, which operates in the Western Cape in association with the University of Stellenbosch, will be the main sponsor of the Lydia Ladies Res and Vesta Men’s ward for the 2010 RAG.
One of the major goals of RAG is to inspire students to be responsible, productive and giving members of the public who take part in community projects, behave responsibly and lend a helping hand where they can. This is in line with the message the Rachel’s Angels programme wants to communicate to students and offers them an opportunity to “lend a helping hand”. “As RAG has such a fantastic effect on all the participants, organisers and spectators at the events, it offers a perfect platform to promote the Rachel’s Angels programme and to recruit our next mentors,” says Jafta.
Lydia Ladies Res and Vesta Men’s ward will embrace a better future with the theme “Love Change”, which is their interpretation of the RAG 2010 theme, Technicolorlegacy.co.za. “We are very excited about our partnership with the Media 24 Rachel’s Angels Trust and are proud of the work done through this programme. It re-enforces the message that students should be responsible citizens and for this reason our main goal with this year’s RAG would be to create awareness of the Rachel’s Angels programme amongst all students,” says Peter Andersen, House Committee Vesta 09'/10'.
Inspirational interviews
One of the aims of this website is to inspire young people. Every second month we will inform you about someone who has inspired us. In these interviews you will learn more about the road they had to take to get to where they are today, which choices they had to make and advice they could give about the industry they are in. Our second profile is on Marlene le Roux, the director of Audience Development and Education at the Artscape theatre in Cape Town.
Marlene le Roux is a rural girl (“plattelandse meisie”) from Wellington in the Western Cape. She grew up with a love for music, a passion for people and a disability due to polio contraction at the age of three months. These three things shaped her life and made her the person that she is proud to be today.
Click here to read the full interview with Marlene. Also under this section, is our previous interviewee, Neville Meintjies from the popular soapie 7de Laan.
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