Following an extensive planning phase, SAEP and ADT Security (SA) have partnered to deliver ADT Teach, a corporate social investment project, during the 2009 school year. The programme is designed to provide IT and computer skills training to at least 180 Grade 10 learners from three schools in the townships of Samora Michel and Philippi (Zisukhanyo, Sophumelela and Intsebenziswano Senior Secondary Schools). Cut of the 240 who were enrolled at the beginning of the year, 235 were still participating at the end of the first school term.

Due to lack of proper equipment and/or qualified teachers, many township schools such as these are unable to provide learners with any meaningful computer training. This places their matriculants at a huge disadvantage when applying for jobs or tertiary education, as IT skills are increasingly in-demand in both cases. In order to provide a large group of learners with these valuable, marketable skills, ADT has hired two experienced IT tutors to work full time on the ADT Teach project, using a mobile computer lab containing fifteen laptops. They are Avuyile Koli and Luzuko Hina, with Pat Collins assisting on the programme.

Currently, learners receive an hour of small-group instruction per week, during the school day, with some additional afternoon, weekend, and holiday classes.  The ADT Teach program will make use of the "Operation Fikelela" curriculum created by one of SAEP's collaborative partners in the township of Khayelitsha. The course is specifically designed for township learners with little or no experience with computers, and uses only open-source software.  It covers not only the learning objectives for the Western Cape Education Department's Computer Applications course, but also a number of NQ Unit Standards, which can be applied toward a nationally recognized IT certificate. 

Depending on the success of this year's program, ADT Teach will offer continued instruction for this group as they move through Grades 11 and 12, while also taking on a new cohort of Grade 10's each year.  The goal will be to have brought as many learners as possible from a beginner to intermediate/advanced level of computer literacy by the end of the three years, enabling ADT and other IT companies to offer more careers to this segment of the population.