Brom is on a mission to provide rural children better quality education

Anna Brom’s passion of assisting children in the Western Cape to access proper and good quality education has led her to start her organization, the Anna Foundation.

The oganisation was founded back in 2015 at Brom’s home province and it has seen over 600 rural children benefiting from its reading, writing and physical fitness programmes.

In an interview with Beautiful News, Brom said it was her own personal experience that led her to starting an organisation of this sort in poor communities.

“We focus on farms and rural communities because these communities are isolated and logistical issues ensure they don’t have the opportunities that other children have,” Brom explained.

Growing up on a farm, access to proper education for Brom was like a fairytale, but this is something some children still regard as unattainable even today.

Some of these schools don’t even have a library and this makes it difficult for children to do their school work including research and homework which require literature which is not provided in class.

The reality is that more focus has been put in more advanced places like urban areas when in fact more developmental work in needs to be done in rural and semi-rural areas.

Before starting the organisation, the article reveals that volunteered as a remedial teacher and later tutored Mathematics and English.

The organisation employs 52 women who are trained on how to read to children, and to teach children how to write. These women are also trained on how to conduct physical fitness.

The team, through what has termed as Right-ing, has helped to sharpen children’s self-esteem and confidence by introducing dramatic arts. This art discipline is offered through life skills which is made available to the curriculum which is offered by the organisation.

“In order to make learning better we use a variety of educational tools,” Brom says. “We use small classes, remedial programmes, computer programmes, whatever we can do to make education fun and engaging.”

The other important skill which is imparted to the children is to learning how to work in a team – a skill that is very critical in the workplace.

By hiring the women, Brom is also contributing to the creation of jobs in a country where unemployment is on an increase.

Brom said what makes her to do the work that she does is recognizing that each and every child deserves love – or to be loved.

“I have always loved helping children. It’s very humbling to work with a child who just wants to be loved,” Brom said.

For Brom and the team, what will ensure a brighter future for these children is love and a good education.

“We are paving the way for success for farm children in the Western Cape,” she says.

Editor’s note:

Our personal challenges can lead us to wanting the best for others. Brom, was inspired to establish an organisation that provides quality education after having realised that she didn’t receive a good education when she was a child.

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Anna Brom is founded an organisation that focuses on imparting life skills, training children how to read and write and that ensures that these children enjoy the same education as those in urban areas.

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Editor: Thato Mahlangu

Project manager: Anirlé de Meyer