True to CPUT’s commitment to produce work-ready and socially responsive graduates, students in the Office Management and Technology Department were given an opportunity to apply the theory they learnt in class in a real life.
BTech students recently held a Non-Profit Organizations Promotion (NPO) Day on the Cape Town Campus to showcase the NPOs with which they partnered as part of their Project Management course.
Featured NPOs were Epilepsy SA, The Haven Night Shelter, Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, Perinatal Mental Health Project, CANSA, Restoring Hope and Triangle Project.
Lecturer Tarryn Kroukamp says the course required the students to partner with a non-governmental organization and decide on strategies for its promotion.
Kroukamp says the project aims to foster interactions between students and NPOs.
“Epilepsy SA and CANSA are always on board every year; students have to keep a relationship with the NPO and learn how to go about promoting it,” she says.
She says some students are involved with some of the NPOs throughout the year.
“The event aims to make the CPUT community aware of what the NPOs are all about and also show what the students can do in terms of promotion.”
