14 221 children have been reached through our programmes since 2005. Each year an average of 1400 children aged few months to 6 years are taken up in our 33 ECD Centres. Of these, 800 children aged 4-6 years will be educated and 142 ECD Practitioners upskilled, majority women.
At Ekukhanyeni, we get to experience first-hand the difference that love, education and nutrition makes in children’s lives, and how it shapes the people they grow up to be. The impact that our Early Childhood Development (ECD) and nutrition initiatives make is far reaching and continuously expanding.
Our ECD initiatives are operational in the informal settlement of Lawley, south of Johannesburg where our ECD Centers offer the only formalised education in this majorly under-resourced community.
Early LearningECD TrainingNutritional SupportECD Center Support
Early Learning
6 933 children aged 4-6 years have been educated through our Early Learning classes.
The children in our beneficiary under-resourced communities who receive sub-standard education pre -interventions are taken up into the formal early childhood development care and early education sphere.
Early Learning classes aim to drive school readiness and to provide the best education and foundation for our little ones to help them build sustainable futures both from an academic and holistic point of view. To reach their full potential, we look to arm our little learners with the skills and attributes that will help them to approach life with inner strength, focus and resilience.
The Grade R and Grade RR classes are delivered by our dedicated and passionate Educators in the ECD Centres who receive weekly coaching sessions by our ECD Team to ensure that the level of education being transferred to our children is up to par with the recommended standards.
Each year on average 800 children
are educated through these classes
Grade R classes launched in 2007 and Grade RR classes in 2012 are offered at our 33 partnered ECD Centres by the Educators who are capacitated and upskilled through the organisation’s training sessions. Both curricula are aligned with the National Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) for Grade R and the National Early Learning and Development Standards For Children, NELDS for Grade RR.
Each year, on average, 800 children are educated through these classes and is the only form of education that the children have received and are receiving in the communities we serve.
Monthly non-accredited Educator trainings are conducted with weekly one-on-one coaching and mentorship sessions by our ECD Team with the ECD Centre Educators to roll-out the Grade R and Grade RR curriculums, thus bridging the gap between the extensive knowledge and skills learnt in the accredited ECD full qualification and its practical rollout in a classroom setting.
The classes run from January to the first week of December each year and follow government school terms.
- Ensuring quality Early Education for children 4-6 years through early learning classes
- Grade R
- Grade 00
- Nutrition Support
ECD Training
- Training and mentorship is offered to empower ECD Centre Principals and caregivers to provide early education and care to children in the ECD Centres
- Accredited training with the ETDP SETA for ECD Level 4
- Coaching & Mentorship
Nutritional Support
- Meal provision
- Establishment of naturally grown food gardens
ECD Center Support
- Partnering with majorly underdeveloped fledgling ECD Sites to create safe & loving havens
- Facilitating ECD Centre registration with relevant government authorities
- Building institutional capacity of the ECD Centres in the areas of governance and financial management