| | http://www.sun.ac.za/si | Community Based Rehabilitation_Witzenberg | A community based rehabilitation initiative informed by the WHO guidelines on community based rehabilitation. This project is situated within the Stellenbosch Municipality. The primary purpose of the initiative is to improve the participation of people with disabilities in society broadly and within the health sector more specifically. The target population for this initiative is people with physical disability and mobility impairment. The initiative aims to: 1. identify the barriers to access to health for people with disabilities. 2. leverage local resources to design inclusive healthcare interventions that promote acess to health for people with disabilities. 3. improve health outcomes for people with disabilities. The initiavtive follows a cyclical approach involving distinct phases including: 1. Situational analysis 2. Planning 3. Implementation 4. Monitoring ad evaluation. Each pase involves stakeholder enaggement including people with disabilities, tehir families, community health workers and local healthcare providers. Through this process students identify barriers ro healthcare access, map available community assets and co-develop contextually appropriate interventions. | 1651 | | |
| | http://www.sun.ac.za/si | Community Based Rehabilitation: Breede Valley | A community based rehabilitation initiative informed by the WHO guidelines on community based rehabilitation. This project is situated within the Breede Valley Municipality. The primary purpose of the initiative is to improve the participation of people with disabilities in society broadly and within the health sector more specifically. The target population for this initiative is people with physical disability and mobility impairment.The initiative aims to:1. identify the barriers to access to health for people with disabilities.2. leverage local resources to design inclusive healthcare interventions that promote acess to health for people with disabilities.3. improve health outcomes for people with disabilities.The initiavtive follows a cyclical approach involving distinct phases including:1. situational analysis2. Planning3. Implementation4. Monitoring ad evaluation.Each pase involves stakeholder enaggement including people with disabilities, tehir families, community health workers and local healthcare providers. Through this process students identify barriers ro healthcare access, map available community assets and co-develop contextually appropriate interventions. | 1646 | | |
| | http://www.sun.ac.za/si | Community Based Rehabilitation: Langeberg | A community based rehabilitation initiative informed by the WHO guidelines on community based rehabilitation. This project is situated within the Langeberg Municipality. The primary purpose of the initiative is to improve the participation of people with disabilities in society broadly and within the health sector more specifically. The target population for this initiative is people with physical disability and mobility impairment.The initiative aims to:1. identify the barriers to access to health for people with disabilities.2. leverage local resources to design inclusive healthcare interventions that promote acess to health for people with disabilities.3. improve health outcomes for people with disabilities.The initiavtive follows a cyclical approach involving distinct phases including:1. situational analysis2. Planning3. Implementation4. Monitoring ad evaluation.Each pase involves stakeholder enaggement including people with disabilities, tehir families, community health workers and local healthcare providers. Through this process students identify barriers ro healthcare access, map available community assets and co-develop contextually appropriate interventions. | 1648 | | |
| | http://www.sun.ac.za/si | School of Accountancy Accounting and Mathematics Rural Tutoring Programme | This social impact project is part of an experiential learning programme to develop citizenship competencies on cognitive, affective and behavioural levels. Accountancy is increasingly recognised as a leadership-orientated career path. Citizenship is a key pillar of responsible leadership. Citizenship competencies, such as empathy and intercultural relational competence, enable responsible leaders to create value for a variety of stakeholders and contribute to sustainable communities. Citizenship competencies have been shown to be developed effectively through experiental learning incorporating service learning and community engagement. The objective of this project is to recruit and support students from the School of Accountancy in volunteering as tutors in mathematics and accounting at afterschool clubs in rural areas of Stellenbosch. In doing so, this project aims to improve the pass-rates and performance in mathematics and accounting of the high school learners attending these rural afterschool clubs. Furthermore, the project aims to encourage more grade 9 learners to continue with mathematics as a subject (as opposed to mathematical literacy). The high school learners attending these afterschool clubs may, without intervention and support, never have the opportunity to enrol at a higher education institution such as Stellenbosch University. Learners in rural areas often lack support because of a lack of volunteers, due to the travel time and distance to where they are based. Even though they live only a few kilometres from campus, the opportunities afforded by the institution may remain outside their reach. By taking our accounting students into the community, we aim to transform students by social consciousness into individuals who will add value to the democratic society. Our students will be more drawn to finding solutions for the injustices that prevail in our society if they have encounters with people living embedded in unjust realities. By transporting (with social impact funding!) students out of their comfort zone and into communities where they can use their skills to make a positive difference, we can truly transform their outlook on the world, but especially, their perspective on their role in changing it for the better. Note that as this is a new project, staff hours invested for 2024 will be higher than in subsequent years, for activities such as liaising with legal services to develop memorandums of understanding, preparing recruitment materials, et cetera. However, this project should yield a high return on investment in terms of an enriching educational experience for our students and a very tangible impact with regard to a well recognised community need. | 1588 | | |
| | http://www.sun.ac.za/si | EMS Teachers Professional Development Workshop / Financial Literacy Teachers Program 2023 | Course of short duration presentred to grade 7, 8 and 9 Financial Literacy teachers in the Western Cape. A course will be presented on basic financial literacy (accounting equation and recording of financial information), economic and entrepeneurship principles. The course will be presented to an Afrikaans and an English group of teachers with separate sessions being presented for novice and advanced teachers. All teachers from the Western Cape Schools will be invited. It is uncertain how many teachers and from which specific schools will attend. The WCED has indicated that subject advisors will encourage those teachers who need development to attend. The objective is to improve the teaching of Financial Literacy, to provide a solid foundation going forward into the field of accountancy and commerce. | 1639 | | |
| | http://www.sun.ac.za/si | DiSEM Football Medicine Clinic | Since April 2023, the Division of Sports Medicine (DiSEM) have organised weekly volunteer sports medicine clinics aimed at football players who do not have access to sports medicine services. Although primarily aimed at youth players from partnering football academies, we have expanded to cater for players from a partnering Women's football team in 2024, opening up for players without adequate health care access. The clinic also aims to help future clinicians specialising in Sport and Exercise Medicine gain experience with health problems specific to adolescent and female athletes. | 1635 | | |
