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Impak
Impak offers a home and support centre educational system that supports parents in preparing their children for adulthood.
E Cape Assoc
The Pestalozzi Trust enjoys wide recognistion for the work that it does. This also comes from far beyond ranks of homeschoolers ranks alone.
Many educationists at universities and education researchers, spritual leaders of various faiths, members of parliament, journalists, child psychologists and pediatric psychiatrists occupational therapists, and even education officials and social workers have great appreciation for the work that we do. Indeed, there are education officials who rather refer enquiries to us that to their own colleagues who are responsible for administering home education.
Our calling
The Pestalozzi Trust is a registered public benefit organisation that is exempt from income tax because it uses its income to make it possible for parents to choose home education with assurance and confidence and in the best interests of their children.
Contrary to the allegations of some malicious politicians and some education officials who openly promote a political agenda, the following is the case:
- We are not an umbrella that protects lawless people, and we don not encourage people to break the law. On the contrary, we help homeschoolers to compel the authorities to obey their own laws. In short, we promote the rule of law.
- Membership of the Trust is not an alternative to registration with education departments. Many members of the Trust are registered with education departments. Indeed, homeschoolers who are registered with education departments have encountered much more conflict with officials that those who are not. Accordingly, those families who are registered with the departments need their membership of the legal defence fund even more than those who are not registered.
- The Trust is not a profit machine intended to exploit homeschooling families. If we were, the Reciever of Revenue would cancel our income tax exemption at once.
We follow our calling primarily by:
- Protecting and promoting the right to home education.
- Preventing and solving conflict between our members and education and welfare departments departments and other state authorities, and by defending members families in court if conflict cannot be settled outside the courts.
- Supporting the objectives and activities of other homeschooling organsiations that share our principles.
- Maintaining mutually supportive relationships with homeschoolers in other countries.
The Trust as established itself as an authoritative source inf information for the homeschooling community, the public, the media, researchers and organse of government. Our authority has developed from:
- Effective response to prosecute homeschoolers, sometimes with full media coverage, and numerous other attempts to harass homeschooling families. The result is that homeschoolers are presently left in peace, especially when it becomes known that they belong to the Pestalozzi Trust.
- Thousands of telephonic and email enquiries and tens of thousands of pages of information that the Trust provides every year.
- The Trust’s initiave what compelled the education minister to rewrite his intended state curriculum in a manner that largely relieves children from the consciencious compulsion that the original version intended.
Association for HE
The Association for Homeschooling promotes the recognition of the right of parents to educate their children within the family in South Africa.
Cape Home Ed
Cape Home Educators organises various activities such as a sport day, winter workshop, educational expo, eisteddfod and prize giving.
QEA Education
QEA College provides career and workforce development programs at locations across South Africa.
