About Micah6
He has shown you, O man,What is good;And what does the LORD require ofYou but to do justly,To love mercy,And to walk humbly with yourGod? (Micah 6:8)
It is an injustice that being poor in South African generally means getting a sub-standard education. It is an injustice that this will affect a child's life forever as poor education restricts their life trajectory and access to opportunities. For this reason Micah6 was initiated in September 2008 and officially registered as a Non-Profit Organisation in June 2010. We are about justice through education.
The current vision of Micah6 is to provide vulnerable girls with the opportunity to maximise their potential and in turn help others to do the same. The key mission to achieve this is investing into the lives of girls in South Africa, by
- Connecting sponsors to an individual life to provide the opportunity to attend a better school.
- Intervening weekly in the life of each child through one on one conversations at our Tuesday English conversation lessons.
- Acting as an advocate for schooling improvements at a local school to which most of our sponsored learners attend.
Critical to our mission is finding sponsors to provide the means for vulnerable girls to attend high school or tertiary institutions. We believe that the key to achieving this goal is to focus our resources and time into fewer candidates rather than many. We aim to spread our energy and resources thickly, and create transforming change in the lives of our candidates: a change that will resonate for years to come. At Micah6 we are committed to facilitating each girl’s education to the finish; guiding their development over the long term and encouraging them in turn, to impact and change their communities.
