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NMBSTC Assists Schools With Re-Opening

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NMB Science Centre produces 2000 hand sanitisers and gears to assist DoE with schools re-opening

NMBSTC Hand Sanitisers
NMBSTC Hand Sanitisers

To fight the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Nelson Mandela Bay Science and Technology Centre (NMBSTC) operated by the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) produced hand sanitisers, face masks and hand lotions with antibacterial as well as antiviral properties.

The NMBSTC hosted IM Africa Foundation, in partnership with FOI Science and the Mandela Bay Development Agency from the 07th – 13th May 2020. The project produced over 2000 bottles of hand sanitisers, 1000 masks and antibacterial/antiviral lotion.

NMBSTC Manager, Singathwa Kuli said, “We understand the socioeconomic challenges posed by COVID-19; hence we have prioritised employing 15 unemployed members of the community. The objective of the program is to empower these 15 individuals through skills development that will provide sustenance for them and their respective communities during the COVID-19 global pandemic.”

The hand sanitisers will be distributed to local organisations, SMMEs’, NGOs’, the MBDA and re-opened schools.

NMBSTC strategic objectives provide educational support programmes to teachers and learners, which also include identifying and nurturing poorly resourced schools in the region. Henceforth, “The NMBSTC is well prepared to assist the Department of Basic Education with their curriculum catch-up strategy in ensuring that learners, more especially Grade 12, are well equipped for further studying as the schools reopen on the 1 st of June 2020”, said Kuli.

The Science Centre’s role of assisting learners to acquire basic knowledge of Science through developed learning programmes, including Education, Training and Skills Development is deeply needed during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

The Science Centre practicals will be administered at the schools and/or at the Centre upon request from the schools and/or DoE when the curriculum catch-up strategy has been publicised. Recorded media will also be made available to schools via NMBSTC social platforms.

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