Students for a Better Future’s core mission is to provide students displaying academic potential, who are financially needy and demonstrate resilience and tenacity, with the opportunity to study at some of the best high schools and post–secondary institutions in Cape Town. South African-born Sue Struengmann and her German husband Dr Andreas Struengmann first recognised the need to invest in South Africa’s children through education whilst working together in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape. Both were working in Tsolo at the time, Dr Struengmann as a medical intern at the mission hospital and Mrs Struegmann, in the local school. They were struck by the lack of resources available to the community. Mrs Struengmann recalls that there wasn’t enough medicine and not even pens and pencils available to learners at the school. At that point, they made a promise to each other that if they were ever successful enough, they would do their part to help young people in this country get a good education. SBF’s scholarship programme initially started out as a High School Scholarship Programme, providing access to educational, financial and psycho-social support in order to ensure our scholars are able to thrive in their school environments. As scholars began to graduate from high school, a Post- Secondary Programme was established, which provided partial and full funding opportunities to study post-secondary education, as well as providing access to job coaching, mentorship and other support.
