CEOs from around the country will take part in a SleepOutTM on Nelson Mandela Bridge on Thursday 28 July in an effort to raise funds for three education focused organisations. Schools are also invited to show their support by doing the same under the banner of The Sun International School SleepOutTM.
Kingsmead College has announced that it is hosting a joint School SleepOutTM at its Melrose, Johannesburg campus for learners from Kingsmead and five other invited schools. This event will be supported by Liberty.
The financial services group is providing logistical support on the night in the form of medical standby facilities, catering and items that make up a ‘SleepOut kit’. Everything loaned to the pupils and teachers sleeping out on the grounds of Kingsmead on the night will be donated, after the event, to a beneficiary that supports homeless South Africans.
The Kingsmead scholars are collecting sandwiches and launching a reading room for Fight with Insight, a boxing centre for youths in the inner city of Johannesburg. Reddam Bedfordview’s learners have pledged to collect items for Mother Teresa in Yeoville, St Vincent School for the Deaf and for Chaylil, an informal settlement in Jackson’s Drift. Redhill School has also risen to the challenge and will join Kingsmead and Reddam on the night, with other schools joining to be announced soon.
Liberty’s Dhiren Sivjattan, Chief Operating Officer, Liberty Value Added Services says: “The School SleepoutTM has two aims – to encourage pupils to develop empathy for the thousands of homeless and vulnerable South Africans, and to make a tangible difference to those in need through the items the learners collect to donate”. Liberty and the schools involved in the Kingsmead SleepOutTM are challenging other learners to spend the night sleeping out on their school grounds. Schools need to pledge to collect much-needed items to be donated to beneficiary schools or charitable organisations. These could be food, toiletries, clothing, books, stationery or even blankets, which will be handed over after the event.
Schools can sign up on the CEO SleepOutTM website by completing a simple online form. They pay a R200 registration fee, and receive a toolkit with instructions on how to arrange their School SleepOutTM and collection drive. All schools that sign up are listed on the CEO SleepOutTM website, which includes the school’s message to South Africa, the beneficiary name, what the pupils are collecting and their reason for participating.
Visit www.theceosleepoutza.co.za and click on The School SleepOut image to go to the registration page for schools. If you’d like more information, you can also email Julie Dekker at Liberty Value Added Services on julie.dekker@liberty.co.za