Thuto Trust seeks to multiply the progressive impact that quality education has in low-income communities through a targeted strategic focus on the development of creative, enthusiastic, and effective teachers, empowered with innovative early reading programmes, maths and science literacy, all with effective support.

Thuto Trust has formed a complementary organisation, the Thuto Education Development Agency (TEDA), headed up by the internationally renowned Dr Delani Mthembu, with the purpose of providing professional leadership training and psycho-social support for our Teacher Interns, and to the broader educational community in South Africa.

Thuto has also birthed Thuto Themba, an organisation dedicated to developing quality, innovative, cost-optimization schools with effective academic models and solutions that combine the best of in-person teaching with the best of online learning.

With the help of donors and partners, we have invested in excess of R 50 million in over 1200 bursaries and scholarships over the past 19 years.  Thuto Trust and its partners need to press on to meet the needs of the future, and exponentially expand our programme, increasing the number of Teacher Interns we support each year to meet South Africa’s burgeoning requirements for teachers.