SAB foundation & Chelo - Innovation meets Education
"With the assistance from SAB Foundation funding, we are able to invite more donors and organisations to enhance infrastructure and improve learning outcomes." — Maker Khalo, Founder of Chelo.
SAB foundation & Chelo - Innovation meets Education
Throughout 2025, Chelo was a participant in the SAB Foundation's prestigious Social Innovation Awards —a program that validated our mission to "pour back" into the communities that raised us. This wasn't a journey we took in isolation, but rather the result of a powerful ecosystem coming together to support scalable change.
Seeds Sown at the Festival of Ideas
The path into this program began at the annual , a platform hosted by and the . It was here where the initial sparks defining our 2025 trajectory ignited. During the festival, we had the privilege of working with from , who became instrumental in helping us refine our value proposition to the community.