{"id":14591,"date":"2024-02-14T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/south-africa\/?page_id=13071"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:44:29","slug":"how-we-serve","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/south-africa\/how-we-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Como servimos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Quote&#8221; module_class=&#8221;home-quote&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#005594&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Our common aim is to express in our time, as Julie did in hers that God is good.&#8221; <\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Constitutions #9)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>St. Julie Billiart founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur to make known God&#8217;s goodness, especially among the most abandoned people and those living in poverty.<\/p>\n<p><img   decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-edited.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-8337 size-full aligncenter lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\"   \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8337 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"219\"><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Many structures in society contribute to engendering and maintaining poverty throughout the world. We work to change these oppressive structures and to help people obtain adequate means for life and human dignity: food, clothing, shelter, medical care, work and education. We believe that education in varied forms is the best means for changing structures and improving the lives of individuals, families, groups and nations. 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admin_label=&#8221; in a small school in town for the children of railway workers and in the Convent on the Hill, outside the town, for \u2018young ladies.\u2019 This school was closed in 1972, but since 2012 has been offering education to boys and girls from Maokeng and beyond.&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_module=&#8221;19068&#8243; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>In a small school in town for the children of railway workers and in the Convent on the Hill, outside the town, for <span class=\"quote1\">\u2018young ladies.\u2019<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>This school was closed in 1972, but since 2012 has been offering education to boys and girls from Maokeng and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ST PETER CLAVER PRIMARY SCHOOL<\/strong> in Kroonstad opened its doors to its first pupils in 1916, under the leadership of Sr Andrina Ledwick, assisted by Sr Mary Theresa Dawkins, both of whom were among the first Sisters of Notre Dame to work in South Africa. In the years to come school leadership was at different times in the hands of Sisters of Notre Dame Brendan Dalton, Alphonse Byrne, Mary McLeish and Veronica Chapman. In January 1976, Mr Michael Mosabela took over as the first lay principal. Today Mr Mosobela\u2019s great\u2010grand\u2010daughter is in the school.<\/p>\n<p>The first 55 years of St Peter Claver Primary\u2019s history were in \u2018B\u2019 Location, Marabastad. After decades of requesting the municipality for a larger piece of ground on which to build the classrooms needed to accommodate its more than a thousand pupils, in 1971 a new school was built with funds donated by the British Province of the Sisters of Notre Dame. The school\u2019s \u2018Great Trek\u2019 from Marabastad to Constantia, on the western side of Maokeng, took place with the help of Fr Lewis Ballink, and friends of the Sisters, Mr De Sousa and Mr Dalleu.<\/p>\n<p>During its first 55 years St Peter Claver Primary was staffed by dedicated lay teachers whose work was always the subject of very positive reports from the Inspectors of Education. Sr Alphonse Byrne, a fluent Sesotho speaker, required only the best from her teachers. She produced in the \u201850s the first Sesotho text books for the first years of schooling.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;CAPTION &#8211; SECTION&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_module=&#8221;19069&#8243; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; module_class=&#8221;ip-text-headers caption-photo&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; z_index_tablet=&#8221;500&#8243; text_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; text_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; text_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; link_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; link_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; link_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ul_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; ol_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; quote_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet=&#8221;1px&#8221; box_shadow_horizontal_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; box_shadow_vertical_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; box_shadow_blur_tablet=&#8221;40px&#8221; box_shadow_spread_tablet=&#8221;0px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><img   decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Notre-Dame-St-Peters-School_kids-2_82960583_2461706900718045_7570585711305293824_n.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-14832 aligncenter size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\"   \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14832 aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Notre-Dame-St-Peters-School_kids-2_82960583_2461706900718045_7570585711305293824_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1361\"><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Mr Mosobela was Principal for 20 years. &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; global_module=&#8221;19070&#8243; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Mr Mosobela was Principal for 20 years.<\/h3>\n<p>He was succeeded by Sr Dorothy Castles who led the school in its expansion to include Grades 8 and 9, thus becoming an Intermediate School. In 2002 former student Mrs Florence Radebe was appointed Principal. During her time as Principal, the primary school acquired 9 new classrooms for its Foundation phase, a grassed playing field for sports activities, a \u2018container\u2019 Econo\u2010kitchen for providing meals for the neediest learners each day, and a double story block with six new classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1980s the Sisters of Notre Dame sought to share the direction and leadership of the school with a Governing Body, made up of concerned members of the community, educationalists, and parents. In time the Board of Governors registered the school as a PBO and an NPO. While the Sisters of Notre Dame remain the legal owners of the site and plant, the business of the school is in the hands of the Board of Governors, details of which are available on another page of this website.<\/p>\n<h3>Various Sisters of Notre Dame at different times assisted staff members with their own academic and professional development, accompanying several through under\u2010graduate studies.<\/h3>\n<p>Sr Veronica Chapman opened the library, the only school library in the township, to pupils from other schools on Saturdays, to enable them to share the library resources the school had been able to acquire.<\/p>\n<p>Often in its first 9 decades parents asked the Sisters to take the school up to Grade 12. This dream became a reality in 2010. Mrs Zunelle de Ru was appointed Head of School from November 2010, and 2011 saw the first Grade 10 class take its place, still on the primary school site. Plans were put in place to raise funds to build the class and other rooms required by a fully operative and functional High School when a fortuitous set of circumstances made it possible for the High School section to move up to the Old Convent site, on the eastern side of Kroonstad, in the suburb now known as Jordania.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;St Peter Claver High School&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_module=&#8221;19072&#8243; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>St Peter Claver High School<\/h3>\n<p>In January 2012 Grades 9, 10 and 11 moved from Maokeng into refurbished sections of the Old Notre Dame Convent on the east of the town. 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