Thuto Pele Organisation(TPO) is a developing initiative and that currently operates in Umkomaas, MagabheniT/Ship and Umgababa.

All our learners come from townships and informal settlements with almost entirely black populations.

Infrastructure is poor, many residents live in shacks, and poverty levels, crime, HIV/AIDS prevalence and unemployment are all high.

While reliable and up-to-date information about these areas is hard to come by, we can provide a small amount of indicative information.

Without additional support, most learners from these areas are unable to perform well enough in matric to qualify for tertiary education.

The lack of career guidance and mentoring at schools leads to low awareness of post-school options and opportunities.

Challenging home environments provide little or no academic support, and in many cases even complicate our learners’ efforts to obtain a good education for themselves.

Many of our learners are orphans, or live with grandparents and are responsible for younger siblings, and even those who do have parents struggle with poverty.

So, the members of the TPO come from the areas mentioned above and they are now giving back to the community they grew up in.

This is to first uplift the prioritised community that raised us and the community we can easily reach without needing a fortune to expand to other areas.

However, another goal of Thuto Pele is to get sponsors that will support, help us reach many communities and enrich many lives through education.