Csi campaign - (for a school project)

1. CSI STRATEGY
CAPITEC BANK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HELP2READ

2. Capitec Bank (through Capitec
Foundation) in partnership with
Help2Read have embarked on a CSI
initiative to improve literacy and
mathematics skills in communities that
have been identified through a
collaborative process

3. ABOUT CAPITEC FOUNDATION
 Capitec Foundation is a non-profit social investment wing of Capitec Bank that
manages the banks social investment initiatives
 The Foundation aims to:
 Improve learners numeracy skills
 Develop maths teachers and school leaders
 Its activities include:
 Maths tutoring
 Mathematics teacher development
 School management development
 Developing financial life skills
 Funding educational support programmes

4. ABOUT HELP2READ
 Help2Read is a non-profit organization whose focus is to:
 Literacy development
 Community strengthening through education and youth development
 The organization is involved in reading support and literacy resourcing
programmes where they:
 Encourage reading in public primary schools across South Africa, particularly in
communities that are in need of this assistance
 Donate literacy and reading resources in the form of reading boxes full of
books
 Offer one-on-one reading assistance through their Reading Tutors

5. THE CSI PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES
 The goals of the initiative are:
 To improve reading proficiency for township primary school children in the Western Cape
and Gauteng disadvantaged communities by putting them through a yearlong reading
program that is designed to increase their literacy levels and literacy assessment scores
so that they are equivalent to levels in advantaged communities.
 To improve teaching skills for secondary school mathematics teachers in the Eastern Cape
and KwaZulu Natal communities that Capitec serves by offering them a yearlong teacher
development programme to equips them with knowledge, skill and understanding for the
subject so that they are able to offer better quality learning to their learners to improve
their mathematics achievement and results.