A new education-based website offers schools, parents and pupils a cost-effective and convenient online method of buying and selling new and old textbooks, sports equipment, musical instruments and other equipment.
The website, www.surf4schools.co.za, also provides a secure recruitment platform and an online shop window that showcases and sells school-related items.
Users may publish free classified adverts relating to all school items that they wish to sell under Classified Advertisements. Parents and students are quickly and conveniently able to create an unlimited number of adverts and the advanced search easily allows users to locate goods they would like to purchase.
As part of its ongoing outreach programme, the site offers under-resourced and community-based schools lacking the necessary funding to register their recruitment needs at no cost.
Surf4schools.co.za has been in development since 2006 and is the brain child of Delicia Merrington of Cape Town. As a parent Merrington saw her own children acquiring and discarding textbooks and sporting equipment over the years. Her background and her own understanding of the needs of schools prompted her to start the service.
Currently surf4schools.co.za is rolling out a plan to reach more than 2 000 schools nationwide.