AECI Eco-Schools Water Education Project 2020 - Modderfontein

Challenges

• Three of the schools teacher coordinator changed jobs making it difficult to continue with the project and form new relationships with the new teachers that were taking over the project. The WESSA project team met with the principals at each school to discuss the challenge, where after the principals appointed new Eco-Schools coordinators to champion the AECI Eco-Schools projects. • Eco-Committee members are sometimes not active on WhatsApp which delays our communication. The solution to this was following up with a phone call to the teachers that did not respond to our communications timeously. • The service provider, a local businessperson, did not meet his contractual obligations to install Jojo tanks at the ten schools. We approached another service provider who completed the installation of the Jojo tanks. This led to a time delay to wrap up year two implementation. • Teachers turn-over made it difficult for us to communicate. We’ve mitigated this by having contact details of at least two to three contact people per school. We also connected new teachers to the bigger WESSA Eco-Schools network which they can draw on for support. • The outbreak of COVID-19 is delaying our project implementation, but we have made provisions through scenario planning and the COVID-19 Response Strategy.

Learner demonstrations at Welamlambo Primary.

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AECI Modderfontein 2020