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<\/div>\nPretoria – Academic Dr Louise van Rhyn has received the Ideas Into Practice award for boosting education in South Africa at a Thinkers50 awards gala in London.<\/p>\n
Van Rhyn started the initiative Partners for Possibility leadership in 2010, which is a non-profit initiative to improve education in South Africa through partnerships between business leaders and school principals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She was the first business leader to partner with a principal to improve their school\u2019s academic outcomes.<\/p>\n
Thinkers50 has named Van Rhyn, founder of NPO Symphonia for South Africa, and its flagship programme Partners for Possibility as its 2021 recipient of the Ideas Into Practice award. <\/p>\n
The award recognises Van Rhyn for pioneering and building the multi-award winning Partners for Possibility programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\u2018\u2019This latest validation is not only a phenomenal recognition of Louise\u2019s tenacity and tireless dedication to creating and building the Partners for Possibility programme, but a testament to her success in following her life\u2019s purpose: creating a better future for all,\u201c said Dorcas Dube, marketing manager for Symphonia for South Africa.<\/p>\n
She said they applauded Van Rhyn for pioneering a movement that had improved over a million lives in South Africa.<\/p>\n
She said South Africa\u2019s education system was struggling with issues such as social differences that have remained after apartheid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nVan Rhyn was eager to apply the skills she had gained through working with diverse local and global organisations for the benefit of all of South Africa\u2019s children.<\/p>\n
Van Rhyn, who holds a doctoral degree in large-scale complex social change, founded Symphonia for South Africa \u2013 an organisation that aims to strengthen the fabric of South Africa\u2019s society by mobilising active citizenship, conscious leadership and cross-sectoral collaboration around critical social challenges. <\/p>\n
She then launched Partners for Possibility, a leadership development programme that focuses on improving the quality of education by empowering school principals who serve under-resourced communities and building their leadership skills through partnerships with business leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nVan Rhyn became the first business leader to partner with a principal in an effort to improve a school\u2019s education outcomes. <\/p>\n
Her partnership with Ridwan Samodien, principal of Kannemeyer Primary School in Grassy Park, Cape Town, led to positive change at the school and the community at large.<\/p>\n
The school\u2019s success, and the success of this first partnership, has been the model for the Partners for Possibility programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nDube said the lessons learnt along the way have been applied to subsequent partnerships as school principals and business leaders together continue to strive to improve education in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Symphonia for South Africa has meanwhile launched the first leg of its nationwide TheFutureWeWant campaign.<\/p>\n
The campaign, initiated by Partners for Possibility, aims to ramp up much-needed support for principals from under-resourced schools in South Africa. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThe aim with this campaign is to create a vision of what is possible in South Africa if all come together to face the challenges in education and to equip principals with the skills needed to lead effectively.<\/p>\n
Komala Pillay, programme director for Partners for Possibility, said most school principals in South Africa face formidable leadership challenges, including a lack of training and professional development, poor school infrastructure, under-qualified and demotivated teachers, and students who are often hungry and ill.<\/p>\n
\u201cSouth Africa has thousands of businesses and business leaders who have been very well-equipped by their organisations to assume leadership positions and manage change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nPillay said the obvious solution was to partner business leaders with school principals, who are often left to cope without any training or support.<\/p>\n
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\u2018\u2019This latest validation is not only a phenomenal recognition of Louise\u2019s tenacity and tireless dedication to creating and building the Partners for Possibility programme, but a testament to her success in following her life\u2019s purpose: creating a better future for all,\u201c said Dorcas Dube, marketing manager for Symphonia for South Africa.<\/p>\n
She said they applauded Van Rhyn for pioneering a movement that had improved over a million lives in South Africa.<\/p>\n
She said South Africa\u2019s education system was struggling with issues such as social differences that have remained after apartheid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Van Rhyn was eager to apply the skills she had gained through working with diverse local and global organisations for the benefit of all of South Africa\u2019s children.<\/p>\n
Van Rhyn, who holds a doctoral degree in large-scale complex social change, founded Symphonia for South Africa \u2013 an organisation that aims to strengthen the fabric of South Africa\u2019s society by mobilising active citizenship, conscious leadership and cross-sectoral collaboration around critical social challenges. <\/p>\n
She then launched Partners for Possibility, a leadership development programme that focuses on improving the quality of education by empowering school principals who serve under-resourced communities and building their leadership skills through partnerships with business leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Van Rhyn became the first business leader to partner with a principal in an effort to improve a school\u2019s education outcomes. <\/p>\n
Her partnership with Ridwan Samodien, principal of Kannemeyer Primary School in Grassy Park, Cape Town, led to positive change at the school and the community at large.<\/p>\n
The school\u2019s success, and the success of this first partnership, has been the model for the Partners for Possibility programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Dube said the lessons learnt along the way have been applied to subsequent partnerships as school principals and business leaders together continue to strive to improve education in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Symphonia for South Africa has meanwhile launched the first leg of its nationwide TheFutureWeWant campaign.<\/p>\n
The campaign, initiated by Partners for Possibility, aims to ramp up much-needed support for principals from under-resourced schools in South Africa. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The aim with this campaign is to create a vision of what is possible in South Africa if all come together to face the challenges in education and to equip principals with the skills needed to lead effectively.<\/p>\n
Komala Pillay, programme director for Partners for Possibility, said most school principals in South Africa face formidable leadership challenges, including a lack of training and professional development, poor school infrastructure, under-qualified and demotivated teachers, and students who are often hungry and ill.<\/p>\n
\u201cSouth Africa has thousands of businesses and business leaders who have been very well-equipped by their organisations to assume leadership positions and manage change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Pillay said the obvious solution was to partner business leaders with school principals, who are often left to cope without any training or support.<\/p>\n
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