New Hope School

New Hope School was established in 1971 as a multi-cultural school for cerebral palsied, learning disabled, dyslexic and multi-disabled learners from the age of 3 years up to 21 years of age. 

The school provides education from nursery, primary to high school level, as well as a "work orientation phase".  It has hostel facilities to accommodate learners from rural areas, and maintains a transport system to accommodate learners who are unable to use public transportation.

There are only two schools for Cerebral Palsied children in Pretoria, and none in the provinces to the north of Gauteng.  New Hope School thus fulfils a critical need for a vast area - NW Province, Mpumalanga, etc.  At present, the school has 391 learners, which is the equivalent of a main stream school of 1360 learners, given the Department of Education's disability weighting ratio.

The school was originally built to accommodate only 219 learners, but there has been a dramatic increase in severely physically disabled learners admitted over the past few years, and it is expected that in future years, this increase will continue to the extent that the school will find it very difficult to cope.

With a few exceptions, school projects in state schools are based on established, Department of Education regulated and proven academic and business principles.  Fundraising projects are mainly the expansion of these projects, to augment shortcomings in the Department's funding, which is especially rife in schools with special needs such as the New Hope School.