and teachers. The findings from this research showed sanitary conditions failed to not meet the standards set up by Western Cape Education Department (WCED). In addition to mass mobilisation and organising strategies to protest and request urgent action from government and education officials, students committed to improving sanitation in schools themselves. In this period of intense campaign and mobilisation efforts, over 3,000 learners and parents marched on the provincial legislature to deliver a set of demands to the Western Cape MEC for Education, Debbie Debbie Schafer on 31 October 2014. The combination of localised and regional action won a number of small victories. However, it proved extremely challenging for the movement to develop and sustain powerful campaigns for these many issues at once. As a result, EE assessed its strategies for addressing education issues in the Western Cape, recognizing the need to consolidate our efforts to campaign on fewer issues. Thus, in 2015, we held meetings at all the youth branches in the Western Cape along with a mass meeting to build consensus on prevalent issues to address using a united and powerful campaign. Equalisers decided to campaign for school safety and sanitation, launching a robust movement to improve school’s safety and sanitary conditions. Inspired by the successes of the Gauteng Social Audit on sanitation crisis, EE launched the Social Audit of the Safety and Sanitation Crisis in Western Cape Schools. In just a few months, EE organised students, teachers, administrators, parents and other community members to assess the obstacles students, teachers, and administrators face in schools with a special emphasis on rural areas. The audit found key security, sanitary, infrastructure, and budget concerns that impaired schools from provident good education to students. In response, EE released an initial 20 demands for MEC for education to address; EE has yet to receive a response. See also Treatment Action Campaign Social Justice Coalition References External links Official website Educational organisations based in South Africa Organizations established in 2008