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Thank you wholeheartedly to everybody who supported our Radio 4 Appeal to reopen the Ubuntu School in South Africa after the COVID-19 lockdown. With an incredible £32,185 raised from almost 300 donors, we have been able to achieve our goal, and are once again providing a safe and nurturing space everyday to 225 children who are recovering from almost a year of isolation and trauma.

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Ubuntu Pathways is a non-profit, community based organisation that provides an integrated support system of health, education, and social support to vulnerable children and their families in the townships of Gqeberha (previously known as Port Elizabeth), South Africa. We aim to ensure that the young children like Ubuntu's former client and Radio 4 Appeal speaker, Nozibele Qamngana-Mayaba, can thrive and fulfil their potential.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought crisis to Gqeberha's townships and in March 2020, Ubuntu launched an Emergency COVID-19 Response to address the disastrous effects of the pandemic. We closed our primary school and suspended all non-essential services in order to transform our campus into an emergency response centre that provided life-saving medical, food security, and psychosocial support to those most at-risk. 2020 was by far the most challenging year in our history and unfortunately, the South African variant of COVID-19 led to a surge that has claimed as many as 1 in 300 lives in Ubuntu's community.

In 2021, we launched Phase II of our Emergency Response: Reopening and Recovery. After a year of isolation and trauma, we know that the safest place for our children is at Ubuntu. Our 91热爆 Radio 4 Appeal delivered crucial support to help reopen the Ubuntu School and provided vulnerable children with a stable learning environment, healthy meals, in-person extracurricular, health, and social services, and a safe space everyday. The generosity of Radio 4 listeners has helped us to reopen as planned, hire and train new teachers, update the Ubuntu Campus to allow for extensive COVID-19 protocols and social distancing, adapt the curriculum, and implement a host of measures to ensure that the Ubuntu School is the most nurturing place for our children to be.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible - your support will help us ensure that a child's birthplace need not determine their future.

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