An Accounting lecturer who teaches and feeds 350 high school learners has been featured on SABC 3’s Expresso morning show recently.

The Accounting Intervention Programme started with learners from Thandokhulu High School in 2012 and has since grown from strength to strength and now benefits 13 local high schools.

Having herself once benefitted from the food donations from the Peninsula School Feeding Association while she was still at school, Dr Karen Dos Reis was promoting the association’s Blisters for Bread Charity Family Fun Walk.

This year’s annual fun walk will be taking place on Sunday and Dos Reis was encouraging viewers to give back to society by supporting the initiative.

Now in its 45^thyear, Blisters for Bread aims to raise funds for the Peninsula School Feeding Scheme programme. The association feeds about 24 000 school children per day including those attending Dos Reis’ Saturday classes at the CPUT Mowbray Campus.

She is running the accounting tutorials with the help of her senior students who also help her prepare the food for the learners.

Dos Reis says the Service-Learning programme is the most inspiring aspect of her job and that she will never stop doing it.

“As an alumnus who did all her qualifications here, I consider myself as a CPUT brand ambassador,” she says.

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CPUT’s Marketing and Communication Department has acknowledged the efforts of principals, life orientation teachers and community organisations in inspiring hope in young academically gifted youngsters.

A gala dinner event was recently hosted by the institution to commend CPUT’s top 20 feeder schools. These are schools who consistently enrol the most number of learners to CPUT, and Thandokhulu High School in Mowbray took the top honour.

The event also commended the role that community leaders and their organisations do in ensuring youngsters consider a university education.

Student recruitment Officer Thandokazi Mtshekisa commended everyone present for working in tandem with CPUT to inspire the next generation.

“Without you there is no CPUT,” she said.

“Thank you for all the hard work you are doing in the communities to keep hope alive for these learners and encourage them to come to study further.”

One of the community leaders commended was Latifah Jacobs from Kuils River.

She was nominated by CPUT Student Recruitment Officer Grant Barends who commended her ability to call youth to action in her community.

“Apart from the wonderful community work that she does in Kuils River (feeding the community and assisting with relief when required), Latifah also assisted in mobilising learners from all the schools in the area to participate in a higher education expo that CPUT was participating in. This meant the message of studying further reached more young people than just one school,” he says.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Dr David Phaho told the guests that he was proud to be partnering with them to make a difference.

“To be in this room this evening means that you have done the groundwork to ensure your learners are eligible for acceptance to CPUT.”

“In short, we understand you and you understand us. Thank you for trusting CPUT as a partner in this journey of educating the future leaders of this country.”

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