literacy project
5 June 2007
The Gauteng MEC for Education Angie Motshekga and US ambassador Eric Bost is
set to participate in an executive teaching session which is part of the launch
of the Operation HOPE Project, themed 'Banking on our future'.
Operation HOPE is an American based financial education and empowerment
non-profit organisation that will launch a $1 million programme to recruit,
train and mobilise more than 250 local professional HOPE corps volunteers to
empower 50 000 South African youth and young adults in financial literacy,
dignity and entrepreneurship.
The launch will be attended by Motshekga, Bost, CIDA University Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) Teddy Blecher, former US ambassador Andrew Young,
Operation HOPE Founder Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant, Chirf Operating
Officer (COO) of Citi Africa Division Donna Oosthuysen, Eva Bakonyi from the
International Finance Corporation, Tina Eboka of Standard Bank and Mampe Ntsedi
of the Nelson Mandela Children's Foundation.
Operation HOPE's 'Banking on Our Future' programme is designed to empower
youth to become financially literate and develop life skills to take control of
their financial future. Operation HOPE was founded in 1992 to empower
minorities in underserved US communities by connecting them to mainstream,
private sector economic resources made available through ongoing collaborations
and long term partnerships with leading government, private sector and
community interests.
At the core of Operation HOPE's mission is to eradicate poverty and empower
the wealthless to establish "Silver Rights" or the right to financial literacy,
access to capital, technology, and equality of opportunity for the
underserved.
To learn more about Operation HOPE, visit http://www.operationhope.org. This vision
corresponds with the Gauteng Department of Education's vision of promoting
dynamic citizenship for socio-economic growth and development for Gauteng and
South Africa.
Details of the launch are as follows:
Date: Thursday, 7 June 2007
Time: 09h00
Venue: CIDA City Campus, 54 Commissioner Street, 8th Floor, Johannesburg
To RSVP contact Thebe Khumalo at 011 355 0310.
For more information contact:
Kate Bapela
Tel: 011 355 0965
Cell: 083 447 6505
Issued by: Department of Education, Gauteng Provincial Government
5 June 2007
