'the Travelling Classroom': Rewriting Stories, 1 Mobile Classroom At A Time

Imagine a classroom that comes to you - one that rolls into your community, bringing books, technology and opportunity to your backyard.

The Travelling Classroom - the school that comes to you comprises two mobile computer and library classrooms that have significantly impacted rural areas in the Cape Winelands District .

This inspiring initiative, launched by leading premium wine producer DGB, has doubled its capacity with the recent unveiling by Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen of a second state-of-the-art mobile learning facility, which took place at Alfons Primary School in Paarl on 10 February 2025.

South Africa face three major challenges: unemployment, inequality and poverty. I think education is the key to the remedy for each of those three particular problems facing us. Making sure that every child in South Africa, no matter their background, is able to access a good quality of education surely has to be one of the easiest ways to level the playing field in our country, said Steenhuisen .

The reality is that the government cannot do it on its own. Limited resources mean that we have to partner with the private sector, with organisations like DGB and others, to be able to meet the huge need that we have to make sure that our children are learning and that the opportunities exist for them to succeed and go forth to become the leaders of tomorrow.