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JumpStartSA

JumpStart Foundation is transforming education in South Africa with data-driven interventions in Maths, Coding, and Robotics. Thank you for enabling our work.

We support schools, train educators, and empower youth interns to bring innovative learning to under-resourced communities. Founded in 2002 we focus our energies on Education, Skills Development and Job Creation with a particular emphasis in Maths, Numeracy and Computer Technology. We facilitate primary and high school Numeracy Maths programs. We have build, and support, Computer Centers to develo

p Maths Learning software solutions. We have supported and founded small business start-ups with investment, mentorship and strategy. We specifically target disadvantaged rural and semi-urban communities and schools. Please visit our web site at http://www.jumpstart.org.za for more information.

09/06/2026

The JumpStart story is not just about learners, teachers and young Educator Assistants.

It’s also about the funders, donors and partners who make this work possible.
A big, sincere THANK YOU to everyone who has supported this work over the years. We genuinely cannot do this without you.

At a time when South Africa is facing both a mathematics literacy crisis and a youth unemployment crisis, support from funders and partners helps us continue creating opportunities for learners and young people across the country.

From learner support and digital learning funded by partners like DGMT and Old Mutual South Africa, to teacher training funded by partners like the Sasol Foundation and Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, every contribution helps strengthen and grow the programme.

Our work is built around one simple idea: Educate. Qualify. Employ.
We’ve been able to make this idea a reality because of the people who believed in it and invested in the solutions that they can see are working.

To support the programme and learn more, visit: jumpstart.org.za/hopeishere

02/06/2026

This Youth Month 🇿🇦 let's celebrate the power and potential of our future leaders through proven solutions to youth unemployment.

The JumpStart Foundation's Educator Assistant programme creates opportunity for young people while helping strengthen foundational mathematics in South African schools.

Because when we invest in youth, everyone benefits.

Watch our latest video and see how SA youth are defying the unemployment crisis.

https://jumpstart.org.za/hopeishere/

26/05/2026

How do you know if an education programme is really working? 🤔

Well, learners on the JumpStart foundational mathematics programme are monitored and tracked through our platform called JumpTrak.

Once they complete the NumberSense workbook exercises, results are entered, and we can see in real time, who is progressing and who needs support, which is immediately available to help get them back on track.

This is measurable impact, and it matters, because it not only helps us to improve the programme, but it shows us that learners are gaining the understanding they need to take mathematics confidently from grade 3 into grade 4, 5 and all the way to matric and beyond!

Today, our programme reaches more than 26 000 learners. And with measurable results we can get even more support to increase this number. Because hope isn’t based on empty optimism, it’s based on evidence and results that can be seen.

See how real-time data improves learner outcomes: https://jumpstart.org.za/what-we-do/me-solutions/

19/05/2026

The JumpStart Foundation's new short film is finally here! 👏🎥

So if you’ve been looking for a feel-good South African story, here’s ours.

We all know the numbers that can make us feel overwhelmed: 46% youth unemployment, inequality, and a mathematics crisis affecting the future of millions of our children.

But what if we told you there is a programme already helping to change those numbers?

The JumpStart Foundation’s foundational mathematics programme is currently reaching more than 26 000 learners across 487 classrooms in 5 provinces, while also employing young interns (called Educator Assistants) to assist in overcrowded classrooms.

Since inception, over 200 000 learners have benefited from our programme and over 220 youth are employed every year, and the numbers are increasing. These are the numbers that give us hope.

So, watch our new brand film for the full story, and learn more about our work: https://jumpstart.org.za/what-we-do/

06/05/2026

A special update from our Eastern Cape work 🌟
Thanks to the invaluable support and contributions of the DG Murray Trust (DGMT), our school intervention programme in Mthatha went digital in September 2025. This funding has helped to equip five primary schools with fibre and tablets, so foundational learners can practise digital NumberSense activities on their tablets, exercising their technical skills and building critical thinking skills.

DGMT’s commitment to investing in young people and levelling the playing field extends to our youth programme too — in Mthatha we have 11 interns employed from the community. They not only support teachers and learners in mathematics, but also gain essential work experience.

Lastly, but very importantly, our Teacher Training, the Two Pathways programme, is expertly delivered in partnership with Kelello Collective. This is a blended development programme that includes face-to-face training as well as an EdTech component funded by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (OMT). Thanks to OMT’s support, teachers learn useful strategies that they can then develop over time with self-paced digital practise, improving their own sense of mathematics, so they can better teach the subject as a whole.

Thank you to both DGMT and OMT for investing in this work and creating real opportunities and meaningful change in the Eastern Cape.

Visit us: https://jumpstart.org.za/

30/04/2026

In case you missed it…

The JumpStart Foundation got a bit of airtime on national television two weeks ago.

Our Executive Director, Lufuno Muthubi-Mthethwa, joined the Expresso Show with Graeme Richards to share how we can better support foundational phase learners and teachers with mathematics confidence and skills from the ground up.

Because when kids understand numbers from an early age, a whole world of opportunities in the digital economy open up for them.

Proud moment. Important conversation.

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/P7yVS5etNqk

Connect with us at Jumpstart.org.za

22/04/2026

Thanks to Expresso Morning Show and Graeme Richards for hosting Lufuno Muthubi - Mthethwa - our Executive Director - last week

We love spreading the word about how important foundational mathematics with NumberSense and MathsSense Mathematics Programmes is for a child’s solid future.

But it was also great to chat about our other programmes, namely our teacher training and youth employment which both underpin the learner intervention we do.

If you didn’t watch the interview live, watch it now, part of our upcoming short film was played 🤩

Learn more about us at https://jumpstart.org.za/what-we-do/

15/04/2026

Meet the people behind the scenes 🌟

Zintle Panca is JumpStart’s Project Manager responsible for the seamless implementation of our programme in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Free State.

For the upcoming JumpStart Film, Zintle helped secure interviews with key people and also one of the locations: Kingsway School — the very first school where the JumpStart mathematics NumberSense programme began, and where it still continues today.

Zintle organised everything — from the headmistress, to a school hall where we could film a number of interviews for the day, she also arranged a delicious breakfast for all of us to, and gathered props needed for the backdrop.

This is the kind of behind-the-scenes work that looks effortless… but takes serious coordination, care, and commitment. And Zintle takes it all in her stride.

Zintle’s daily functions help bring NumberSense into classrooms, but on a deeper impact level, she is contributing to strengthening how mathematics is taught through teacher support, training and digital tools for learners, EAs and teachers.

Zintle started as an EA herself and has progressed through the organisation, an ambassador for how the JumpStart programme can meaningfully change lives.

Visit us: jumpstart.org.za

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Monday	08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 17:00
Thursday	08:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00

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