Outreach Activities
Outreach initiatives play an important role in engaging local communities, earlier educational levels, etc. in the promotion and consolidation of indigenous languages as media of instruction.
BAQONDE Outreach pack for schools
The BAQONDE project has developed an outreach pack for schools about languages and multilingualism in South Africa. The aim of the pack is to promote the use of indigenous African languages as a medium of instruction and to foster the intellectualisation of African languages amongst a younger audience. The pack covers topics including language and identity, human rights, language learning, and job opportunities. The pack offers a set of teacher resources including slides, activities and worksheets for use in the classroom.
Why are we doing this? Because the BAQONDE story starts much earlier than at university. It starts in schools and in homes. It starts with our pupils who speak the dozens of different languages that make up our communities. It starts with the parents, grandparents and caregivers who help nurture our children and these languages. It starts with all of us!
ULPDO and BAQONDE Project Celebrates World Book Day in Style!
As part of World Book Day festivities, the ULPDO organized a special book drive aimed at supporting local initiatives focused on improving literacy. The culmination of this drive saw the distribution of books to Ekwazini High School in Umlazi, Durban, where we also continued the impactful legacy of the BAQONDE Project. The BAQONDE Project, by means of the ULPDO, aims to advance linguistic diversity by promoting the development and recognition of indigenous African languages within educational systems.
UWC remains committed to its mission of advancing African languages in schools, impacting hundreds of students of different grades.
Outreach BAQONDE program at Stembele Mathiso High in NewCross, Cape Town
NWU comes back to schools to raise multilingual awareness
Our NWU team visited Phitshana Public School found in the Free State Province at Heilbron Phiritona township to raise multilingual awareness. Different grades took turns in demonstrating their reading ability in different languages and received BAQONDE certificates for their display of knowledge about language diversity in South Africa
Empowering Education: Promoting African Languages in Schools through Meaningful Connections
Outreach program at Ekwazini High School in uMlazi, Durban.
More schools embracing our project’s vision
Lots of energy around the visit of our UWC team to Zimasa Primary School in Langa, Cape Town
NWU colleagues are playing a key role in spreading the vision of BAQONDE to local schools
NWU BAQONDE visits local schools.
Local schools are attending the NWU Open Day & BAQONDE is there!
The NWU campus at Potchefstroom was host to roughly 5000 prospective 2024 first years coming from as far as Namibia, and at least 15 different schools from across the province. Flyers with all the various multilingual pedagogies and information about the valuable BAQONDE contributions (e.g. Polokelo) were used to welcome future students!