Target 17.16: Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development through multi-stakeholder partnerships.
The Problem Partnerships between schools in different countries often run one way, with one side giving and the other receiving.
The Move They Made In 2006 David Geldart, then an assistant headteacher at St Mary's Catholic High School in Menston, West Yorkshire, visited Mnyakanya High School in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. Mnyakanya's principal made a return visit the same year. The partnership uses sport as a way into education, health and leadership. St Mary's students, with students from Eshowe High School, train Mnyakanya students through the Bambisanani Leadership course. The University of Leeds and Leeds Trinity University later joined. It is now a registered charity (number 1163461).
The Proof By 2023 the partnership reported that more than 12,000 young people in the UK and South Africa, from primary school to university, had taken part in its programmes over 17 years.
Your Move Share the decisions, and keep turning up, year after year. A partnership that meets once a year is a letterhead.
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