Kleinberg Primary
Marine Primary
Feeding Hungry Minds in Ocean View
Due to the shortage of employment opportunities in the South Peninsula as well as the loss of fishing quotas Ocean View has fallen on hard times with rife unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse. Public transport from Ocean View is also very limited, and has contributed to significant unemployment.
This is a very poor community with many children only living on one mal nutritional meal a day. More youngsters are involved with gangsters and it is said that there is little protection offered to the community. It is a community that has suffered a loss of dignity, pride and hope.
Both parents and children have often been affected by alcohol fetal syndrome, drugs are freely available and, as a result, most children who live here are exposed to substance abuse, violence and neglect and are often themselves subjects of abuse.
* Ocean View needs a Youth Centre, with a dedicated soup kitchen, homework support and other self-relient programs.
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Marine Primary is located in the heart of Ocean View and Creating Change has been involved since 2009 running natural gardening, conscious cooking, sewing and role model workshops. There are 1300 learners at this school and old club members up to Grade 11 still visit and partake in environmental and gardening activities with the juniors.
Ocean View Secondary School
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Kleinberg Primary is the first founded school in Ocean View since 1969.
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A soup kitchen garden was implemeted on Mandela day 2013 and since evolved into a value added site for different Creating Change programs to the Change Agents of Grade 2 and 6's.
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A champion Foundation Phase Teacher Ashleen du Plessis overviews the garden with the assistance of the full time foreman Michael which the Conscious Lifestyle program supports.
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Ocean View Secondary School is the only senior school in Ocean View. Learners are mostly from Ocean View, Red Hill informal settlement and from Masiphumulele.
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Creating Change has been facilitating adhoc Conscious Cooking workshop to the Consumerism learners since 2012. These workshops ad value to CAPS curriculum.
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Until plans of a school’s expansion is approved, it cannot be decided upon where a garden will fit in. Learners were transported to the Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Centre and trained there where they implemented the very first vegetable garden with learners from Masiphumulele High School whilst on the Conscious Lifestyle Program.