Urban Sky
Charity in Port Elizabeth

The Urban Sky Trust, an Eastern Cape initiative was established by Urban Lava Advertising as our CSI with the objective to IMPROVE the educational facilities for the partially hearing.

The school was named after Mr Albert Jackson, a businessman, who played a prominent role in promoting and fostering education in Port Elizabeth. The school flourished and the buildings became inadequate and antiquated. After years of correspondence and representation to the Department, four stately old homes were expropriated in Park Drive to build the present school building. The school has a pleasant setting, steeped in history and is highly conducive to learning activities. Our beautiful, three storey building was erected amongst the magnificent old trees which have weathered many storms over the years. The school is rich in tradition and has a history of fine academic progress with high standards being maintained. We do not, however, rest on our laurels and ensure that we keep up with the modern educational techniques and ideas that are demanded by today’s society. Discovering your child may have a hearing impediment is a shocking experience as one always want their children to be perfect and not have to live with a disability in an already hard living world. Do not be afraid, the only thing they cannot do is hear properly. As far as every day life, it is what you make of it for them as a parent. Only you can teach them to tackle their disability head on and turn a negative into a positive. The Urban Sky Trust, an Eastern Cape initiative was established as a CSI with the objective to IMPROVE the educational facilities for the partially hearing children, EDUCATE the public on the simple fact that the only thing a deaf person cannot do is hear properly as well as the importance of testing the hearing of children at birth and to ASSIST partially hearing children educationally to live a fulfilled life. Urban Sky works closely with the team of professionals at Greenwood Primary School in Port Elizabeth, the only mainstream educational facility with a Partially Hearing Unit in the Eastern Cape. The Units classes serve hearing-impaired pupils from as young as 3 years old to Grade 7, as well as special class learners who would be unable to cope with the demands in the mainstream of education due to their attendant speech, language and educational problems caused by hearing loss. The goal in the Greenwood Primary School Partially Hearing Unit is to attend to the hearing-impaired learners special educational needs in small specially equipped and acoustically designed classes. It is envisaged that these learners be re-integrated into the mainstream of education as soon as they have been enabled to cope with their hearing impairment as well as other demands of the normal school syllabus.