ANNUAL REPORT 1 Our Mission Our Mission: Lalela Provides Educational Arts for At-Risk Youth to Spark Creative Thinking and Awaken the Entrepreneurial Spirit
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2018 ANNUAL REPORT 1 Our Mission Our Mission: Lalela provides educational arts for at-risk youth to spark creative thinking and awaken the entrepreneurial spirit. Contents 3 Message from our CEO 4 Our Story 8 Why the Arts? 10 Our Methodology 11 Our Theory of Change 12 Impumelelo Platinum Award 13 2018 Impact 14 Our Communities 20 Special Programs 23 Vacation Programs 24 Our Sustainable Future 25 Our Class Campaign 26 The Lalela Scarf 27 Our Strategic Partners 29 Our Corporate Partners & Donors 30 Our Financials 32 Our Boards & Teams 34 Contact Us 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 1 Lalela Overview 2018 Cape Town Hout Bay • Hout Bay High • Oranjekloof Primary • Silikamva High • National Arts Council • Sentinel Primary • One&Only Cape Town • FNB Joburg Art Fair Masiphumelele, • CTIJF Golf Day Fish Hoek Corporate • Investec Cape Town • Ukhanyo Primary Partners Art Fair • Masiphumelele High Special Programs • Leadership • Female Empowerment • Civic Engagement • Vacation Programs • Shakespeare Schools Festival SA School Programmatic Cape Town Partners Partners • Amy Foundation Johannesburg • Common Good Lalela Center for • Afrika Tikkun • Mellon Educate Arts & Innovation • Zeitz MOCAA • Beyhan College • Metro College • JW Saints College Johannesburg • Mahlasedi High School • The Tomorrow Trust • Mahlasedi Primary School KwaZulu-Natal • Kube Schools • New Model High School Rorke's Drift KwaZulu-Natal • City Rand College • Amoibe Primary School • Keep a Child Alive & Zoë-Life • Sir Isaac Newton College • Busy Bee School Zimbabwe Special Programs • Zara’s Center, Buluwayo • Shakespeare Schools Festival SA • Civic Engagement Uganda • Hope North, Masindi 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Message from our CEO Dear Friends of Lalela, Additionally, Lalela had the honor of winning the prestigious 2018 Impumelelelo Social Innovation Lalela was founded on the belief that educational Platinum Award, which recognizes innovators who arts has the power to advance academic “find creative solutions for social problems.” performance and build the character and life skills needed for more meaningful career opportunities. We would be remiss if we did not also celebrate the ANDREA KERZNER accomplishments of our Facilitators, the lifeblood of After eight years of providing educational arts to CEO & FOUNDER: LALELA at-risk youth, we now have statistics that back up Lalela, who, while championing Lalela’s methodology, this belief: have become leaders and role models to other educators in the field. Of 100 South African youth, 56 are unemployed. In 2018, Lalela Of 100 youth graduates from Lalela, 89 are either Lalela Alumnus and Facilitator, Mark Oppelt, was one meaningfully employed or are studying in tertiary of three recipients of an award from the Western embarked upon education. Cape Government’s Department of Cultural Affairs, recognizing excellent practitioners working in after new partnerships that If it was not for our dedicated team and our school programs across the province. have further solidified supporters’ commitment to Lalela’s mission and values, we would have not have been able to grow Lalela Facilitator, Nwabisa Ndogeni, was chosen Lalela’s position as the and sustain our programs to the point where our by Community Chest, a community development impact is measurable. Thank you. organization, and Artscape Theater to be part of an leading educational international exchange of visual and performing arts arts program in As of December 2018, 57 877 learners have facilitators. Nwabisa was appointed lead facilitator of experienced our HeartMap Curriculum through the South African contingent when the group visited Sub-Saharan Africa. our partnership with the National Arts Council. Zambia and France as part of the exchange. 565 teachers from 358 schools have been trained April 2018 saw the enabling us to scale our curricula. In addition, over We look forward to continuing this journey in commencement of 5 000 learners are currently in our regular weekly providing educational arts empowering at-risk youth after-school workshops. to design a more certain future for themselves and Lalela’s program at their communities. In 2018, Lalela embarked upon new partnerships Zeitz MOCAA, the that have further solidified Lalela’s position as the In gratitude, largest museum of leading educational arts program in Sub-Saharan Africa. April 2018 saw the commencement of Andrea Kerzner contemporary African Lalela’s program at Zeitz MOCAA, the largest Founder & CEO, Lalela museum of contemporary African art in the world. art in the world. Later in the year, we became an official NGO Partner for the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 in Johannesburg, which was attended by 94 000 visitors, resulting in massive exposure. 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 3 Provided arts education to youth from disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, Monday through Thursday, in partnership with the South African National Gallery during the Soccer World Cup, when South African children were out of school for six weeks. Formally began building the Opened the Lalela I AM foundation of our model for Peace Center for the Arts Implemented informal arts education programs in Northern Uganda in after-school arts education in our partner schools in partnership with Hope North, workshops on Fridays at the townships of Imizamo bringing arts education to the Community Center in Yethu, Hangberg and 300 former child soldiers. Imizamo Yethu. Masiphumelele. 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Brought our work to Mfuleni, Cape Town in partnership with Afrika Tikkun. Sentinel Primary School (Hout Bay) made Lalela compulsory for all Grade 1 and 2 learners. Expanded our footprint to Gauteng thanks to a partnership with the Tomorrow Trust in Johannesburg. Implemented program Began workshops in Rorke’s Both the principals of in Nyanga, Cape Town Drift, rural KwaZulu-Natal, Hout Bay High School in partnership with the in partnership with KHULA and Silikamva High School Amy Foundation. (David Rattray Foundation). (in Hout Bay) introduced Lalela as a compulsory subject for all Grade 8 learners. 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 5 Our Story Opened Lalela’s Center of Arts and Innovation in Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg, providing arts education to learners in downtown Johannesburg. In one of our most innovative partnerships to date, Lalela teamed up with Zeitz MOCAA to bring arts education to children living in the inner city of Cape Town. Children who attend the Zeitz MOCAA program have Commenced workshops at access to some of the most Happy Valley Primary School contemporary and relevant in Blue Downs, significantly art in South Africa, as it is increasing our reach in Cape displayed in the museum Town through a partnership above their classroom. with Mellon Educate. Began providing our arts Launched a ground- Partnered with Common education curriculum to breaking partnership Good to bring arts education children affected by HIV/ with Acorn Education in to 613 learners at Disa AIDS in Wentworth, Durban Fisantekraal, Cape Town Primary in Bonteheuwel, in partnership with Keep a with five facilitators working a Cape Flats community Child Alive and Zoë-Life. with 1 350 learners. ravaged by violence and gangsterism. 66 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 We Support Transformation One afternoon during the South African winter imagination and continue through grade 12 in of 2010, in the township of Imizamo Yethu, connecting the arts to everything important in Western Cape, South Africa, 20 students a child’s life, from core academics to critical gathered for their first experience in the arts. life skills. By building our curriculum at the This marked a new beginning for what would intersection of arts education, academic LALELA (la·le·la) v soon become Lalela. achievement and critical life skills, Lalela’s Lalela is an isiZulu word that workshops activate whole brain thinking, means “to listen”, and it is at the Lalela Project Trust was formally registered developing the creative potential of at-risk heart of what we do. as a non-profit organization in South Africa youth, empowering them to become innovative By listening to children’s stories in June 2011 and started running formal role models with meaningful careers. and each community’s needs, after-school arts education workshops we are able to understand at our partner schools in Hout Bay and Our role in arts education is not to churn out the challenges and, in turn, Masiphumelele. Every day after school, in the artists; it is to help blaze the trail in whole brain provide creative solutions hours when children are most vulnerable to thinking with a proven path to innovation and abuse of every kind, we would host workshops. new job creation. and a way forward. We start early (age 6) in developing the art of 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 7 Our Values ALWAYS INSPIRE WITH CREATIVITY REIMAGINE CHALLENGE AS OPPORTUNITY TRUST WE CAN BE TRAILBLAZERS OF CHANGE "Lalela has had a the biggest impact on our school compared Why the Arts? to any other external organization. The biggest visible change is in the behavior of the learners who attend the program. The arts are often the first subject to be removed from They have developed strong leadership skills and all of them school due to a lack of resources, yet the importance of are prefects at the school. I can with confidence say that the creativity in a child’s life is significant. Research proves that arts education enriches the lives of students, learners attending the program are better equipped to handle increasing their academic, social, mental and economic peer pressure and make better life choices." well-being over the long term. - MS NKOMO, PRINCIPAL BEYHAN COLLEGE 8 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Our Arts Education Program It contributes to six outcomes, which are key indicators of life and academic success. 1. Academic achievement For at-risk students, arts education increases school attendance, student motivation and academic success across the curriculum, with art students outperforming their peers on standardized tests. 2. Critical problem-solving Students who study the arts re-evaluate their work as they go and develop advanced problem-solving skills, adapting their artwork to new perspectives and materials.