Lonmin Community Education Programme
Imagine a community able to rise above poverty to subsistence and beyond subsistence to wealth creation and sustenance - an empowered community that is able to make a meaningful contribution to its own eco- nomic development and quality social and educational upliftment. A community sophisticated enough to analyse different viewpoints, and take an objective decision and translate ideas into development.
At Lonmin, we believe that this is possible and are walking with our communities, one step at a time, to empower them to realise this dream. This empowerment starts with education.
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We are Lonmin, a primary producer of Platinum Group Metals. We create value by the discovery, acquisition, development and marketing of minerals and metals.
We respect the communities and nations that host our operations and conduct business in a sustainable, socially and environmentally responsible way.
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The Lonmin Community Education Programme, with its multi-stakeholder ap- proach, creates value for both community and business — addressing unem- ployment and poverty while creating a platform to sustain the positive impact.
Our Approach
High School learners doing experiments in a Science Lab supported by Lonmin.
Our Community Education Strategy is built on the commitments of the Lonmin Charter and primarily focuses on developing an education system that inspires sustainable living, influences the fulfilment of dreams and ad- dresses Lonmin’s future skills needs. This Strategy incorporates our Social and Labour Plan’s commitments and supports the values and principles of the Department of Basic Education.
Our Community Education Programme owes its success to the inclusive and responsive multi-stakeholder approach which informs our programme and forges partnerships and relationships which are built on trust and encourage a sense of ownership. Stakeholders with whom we engage include school principals, ward councillors, peers, municipalities, youth forums, employees, government departments and tribal authorities. We pro-actively consult these stakeholders on an on-going basis through meetings, hand-over ceremonies, baseline assessments and workshops. We also hold regular feedback ses- sions to ensure that we provide an adequate response to the stakeholders.
This multi-stakeholder approach resulted in an infrastructure partnership with SkyChrome, assistance from government with baseline assessments, clear- er identification of needs, the positive outcomes of various projects and the
development of an education value chain. Every community education project undertaken by the Com- pany is evaluated in terms of how it fits into the education value chain. The chain focuses on infrastructure development and learner, educator and parent support. The chain also enables a linkage to our training academy, community health programme, enterprise development and our recruitment process, thus em- phasising promotion of return on investment from our education investment.
The objectives to each section within the value chain were identified and prioritised through the annual School Baseline Assessment as well as Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centre assessments.
These objectives are:
1. To create infrastructure to meet the needs of our communities to educate children and teachers in the GLC. 2. To design and implement Education Programmes that will support the children and youth of the GLC.
3. To reinforce a sense of place and identity through establishing local community arts, sports and cultural programmes.
4. To develop school governing bodies in their role of governance and implement development pro- grammes for school administrators and teachers
With these objectives as per our strategy, the value chain provided the much needed guidance in terms of “how” to action these objectives to obtain the best possible outcomes.
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