We offer a cost effective way for you, the sponsor, to make a meaningful impact on the lives of each individual recipient, and more importantly to have some control over where your money goes and how it is spent. If you sponsor underprivileged education via other non profit companies, you simply pay an amount that goes towards their global overhead without you knowing exactly how the money is allocated. Your contribution is paid into a big “pot” that is then co-mingled and allocated to various programs over which you have no control. This is a very inefficient way of managing and spending your money and offers little accountability in return, which would otherwise ensure you receive the best value for your money. By contrast, when you sponsor education via Mandisa Education, you don’t pay an arbitrary amount that is paid into a general “pot”.

You sponsor per student, and that payment covers all that student needs per year. So you pay the fixed amount per student of R13 820 per year and this allows you to sponsor one student with all that he or she needs. This amount allows you to sponsor a student based anywhere in the country and receive feedback on that student and know where and how your money is being spent. It comes with clearly defined deliverables and clear cut accountability in the form of knowing exactly whom you have sponsored and how they are progressing. After two terms of studying, you will receive the profile of your sponsored student including his/her name, address, photo, brief personal summary, a letter addressed to you from the student and the last two terms’ report cards that show the grades attained for the previous two terms. This will allow you to decide if you wish to continue sponsoring the student for an additional year and allows you to see exactly how and where your money was spent, giving you total control and peace of mind.

In deciding how much you wish to sponsor, factor in that each student costs R13 820 per year, i.e. 20 students cost R276 400 per year.