Acronis Cyber Foundation Diary - South Africa School

As part of its Schools Initiative, in 2022 the Acronis Cyber Foundation aims to provide 200 talented girls at the Molo Mhlaba school in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa with a better learning environment.

Molo Mhlaba — which means “hello, world” in the Xhosa language — is an iSTEAM school that aims to ensure black girls, especially those living in underserved communities, have access to quality, safe, and affordable education which will allow them to transform their lives and the lives of their families. A major challenge that the school currently faces is that they're operating out of a rented facility that wasn't designed for this purpose.

The Acronis Cyber Foundation, working with project partners on the ground, is driving the construction of a new, purpose-built school for the girls of Khayelitsha. The land has already been purchased and the first stage of construction is about to start. The local community is participating in this process, helping to ensure the school's sustainability and an ongoing commitment to lifechanging education.


++ About the Acronis Cyber Foundation ++

The Acronis Cyber Foundation was established by Acronis in 2018 in honor of Acronis’ 15-year anniversary and the company’s founding principle that all evils are caused by insufficient knowledge. The foundation supports multiple initiatives around the world designed to stimulate education in order to gain and protect knowledge. The Acronis Cyber Foundation has been creating and sharing knowledge by funding schools and computer classrooms in underserved communities, publishing educational children’s books, and developing IT training programs for groups including military veterans, ex-offenders, and immigrants.

++ About Acronis ++

Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that fit the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications, and systems with innovative next-generation antivirus, backup, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection management solutions powered by AI. With advanced anti-malware powered by cutting-edge machine intelligence and blockchain based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment — from cloud to hybrid to on premises — at a low and predictable cost.
Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 1,700 employees in 34 locations in 19 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through over 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries and 25 languages.

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