Our Venues

Vuleka is a multi-campus school operating from seven different church venues and one house.  We have one Managing Director and one administrative staff for all eight campuses.  The majority of pupils travel between 10 and 25 kilometres every day to get to school.  Our taxi drivers collect the children from their homes, and then meet at a central point in Alexandra and Soweto townships.  The pupils then swap taxis and are transported to the different churches.  This should be a logistical nightmare, but runs surprisingly smoothly because of our competent drivers and the grace of God.

The Primary Schools

Vuleka operates two full primary schools - Grade 0 to Grade 7 - in Rosebank and North Riding.  A third primary school is being built at St Michael's, Weltevreden Park.

Early Learning Centres

St Paul's, St John's and St Francis are Early Learning Centres.  We provide excellent, affordable preschool education for children living in the surrounding suburbs, or those whose parents work nearby.  Private preschools in these suburbs are generally extremely expensive, but our Early Learning Centres enable parents who cannot afford these huge fees to give their children the benefit of education from the age of 3 years.  Our aim is to provide our little pupils with a good foundation which will enable them to thrive once they leave us and go into Grade 1 at their local government schools.

Our Special Needs School

Randburg Methodist Church houses our two special needs classes.  These classes cater for pupils who fall into one of the following categories:

• Over age pupils

• Severely learning disabled or remedial pupils

• Sick pupils

• Pupils who have not been taught in English and need a year to learn the language before they are mainstreamed

• Older pupils who have never attended school before

• Abused and traumatised pupils

Jerry Morake and Sam Naledi,  Soweto driver and Alex transport manager.