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Sinenjongo High School.

Program Contacts

• Pieter Streicher, Volunteer teacher at Sinenjongo High School
• Erica Litrenta, Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP Programme, SUPSI

Program Information

Sinenjongo High School

• A high school class in South Africa that has been writing Wikipedia Articles in isiXhosa.
• Their teacher has been helping them with this effort for one hour a week. It's the only time that they have internet access.
• 12 students at Sinenjongo High School, in the township of Joe Slovo Park, Milnerton, Cape Town, South Africa, wrote an open letter to MTN in South Africa as featured in this short film. MTN South Africa signed up for Wikipedia Zero as a result.

Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP Programme

• The Wikipedia Primary School aims to provide on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in the languages used by the different education systems is a project allowing students, families and teachers to find on Wikipedia the documentation necessary to obtain the primary school qualification in their country, in their language.
• Wikipedia Primary School programme information on English Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Primary School programme article in This Month In Education