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  • Another African Angel heading to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls
    Sharon and the whole team at African Angels are very proud of our Inga who has been accepted into the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG) in Johannesburg next year. Inga joins Linako who is in Grade 9 at the Academy. It is a huge honour to be awarded a bursary at OWLAG, with […]
  • From the Principal’s Desk
    It is hard to believe that our annual prize-giving is tomorrow and we face the end of our 10th school year! For our teachers, it has been a year of many professional development opportunities. One of these has been Apple training with iSchool Africa. Since April we have been having monthly training sessions with Erna […]
  • View African Angels’ “Face behind the mask” artworks
    If you live in East London, pop into Vincent Shopping Centre and check out some of our African Angels’ artwork in the “Smile behind your mask” exhibition. These artworks will be sold online by Art For Art – read last month’s newsletter for more about the amazing work that they do to help raise funds for visual art education.
  • Hlomla becomes the movie star of her dreams
    Hlomla, one of our grade 6 learners, had a dream come true when she was asked to feature in the new African Angels Days for Girls washable sanitary pads promotional video. She has always wanted to be a superstar!Watch the video here Hlolma also writes and sings her own rap songs. Watch out world – here […]
  • Rotary Anns cheer up the Boys’ Hostel
    The Rotary Club of Arcadia has been a long-time supporter of African Angels. Their most recent project was to fund the tiling of the boys’ hostel. When Kathy Naylor, of their Rotary Anns club, popped in to have a look at the new floors she was struck by the state of the curtains; many were […]
  • Supporter Spotlight – Jumbo Clothing
    In 2016 Jumbo joined our supporter team delivering care packages to our Angels and Alan Scheckter, owner of Jumbo, gave our oldest Angels a talk about entrepreneurship. Since this time, Jumbo have been a hands-on and active supporting partner, sponsoring branded tracksuits, jackets, shoes, t-shirts and vouchers for our Angels. Jumbo sponsored the African Angels’ […]

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In December 2003 an Australian traveler, Lou Billett, arrived at Buccaneers Backpackers in Chintsa, a small seaside village on the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and fell in love…

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