About Save Our Schools and Community

SOSAC  is  a  schools  transformation  movement  formed  by  a  collective  of socially  active  individuals  from Port Elizabeth  and Grahamstown  in  January 2008. The  organization was  founded  on  the basis  that South Africa’s  public school  system  requires  much  more  commitment  from  all  stakeholders, especially their immediate communities.

In many of  these communities, schools are not viewed as community-owned resources.  As  such,  constructive  relationships  between  schools  and community  do  not  exist.  Schools  are  vandalised,  theft  of  public  property  is high, and crime besieges many schools.  In addition  to  this, abysmal  literacy and pass rates mean that schools do not produce citizens with basic skills tobecome  self-sufficient  adults. Without  a  conscious  re-building  of  this  fragile partnership between school, community and state  there can be  little hope of effectively transforming South Africa’s education system for the better.

SOSAC’s  founder members are grounded  in community arts activism (music and  dance)  and  have  been  using  art  as  a  tool  and  platform  for  driving community dialogue and mobilisation. We decided to streamline our activities by  focusing  all  our  energies  and  efforts  under SOSAC  because we  believe that  fundamentally,  access  to  quality  education  is  what  our  youth  need  for long-term self development.

http://sosac.magix.net/website/