Environment and Language Education Trust

Environment and Language Education Trust (ELET) was established as the English Language Education Trust in January 1984 as a result of an initiative of the Urban Foundation and several meetings of representatives from the Departments of Education that were operating in the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). The head of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language, Professor Keith Chick, was the convener. After several meetings, the concept of an English Resource centre was born and the English Language Education Trust was established with funds from Anglovaal Ltd. and with Mervin Ogle as its first director.