Over the last few months, we have been incredibly busy implementing our Social Employment Fund (SEF) project, after being selected as a strategic implementation partner by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). Under this fund, teachers who previously earned close to nothing while working at unfunded Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres will receive a monthly income […]
DUPLO to remote and under resourced ECD Centres
During 2021 Impande distributed DUPLO play and learn boxes to 150 ECD centres in WM Mandela Municipality in partnership with to Zero2Five. After seeing the difference DUPLO made at ECD centres that had nothing, we engaged with Care for Education to scale up the project. To our delight they shared our vision of reaching remote […]
Expanding our reach
Impande is currently expanding operations to 2 new Municipalities – Umzimkhulu in the Harry Gwala District of KwaZulu-Natal and Ntabankulu in the Alfred Nzo District of the Eastern Cape. Both areas have high levels of poverty and unemployment, poor infrastructure and low levels of economic growth. Impande believes that the most effective developmental approach is […]
Community Surveys
December 2021 newsletter Impande recently did a community survey to ascertain what percentage of the child population would typically be reached through an ECD support programme. Our fieldworkers were assigned to the task and Ward 17 was selected in mBizana Municipality in the Alfred Nzo District of the Eastern Cape. This area is the poorest […]
Building Dreams: Sibambesene ECD Centre
Drive approximately 30km on dirt road north of Dududu, hugging the Umkomazi river as it snakes it way through the valley and you will arrive at Ntshaseni area. It’s at least a 3-hour drive from Port Shepstone although referred to as ‘inland’ from Scottburgh. Here the new site of Sibambesene ECD Centre greets you. “Wow, […]
Psychosocial Support in ECD
For the first months of 2021, Impande’s helpdesk and field workers focused on providing ECD stimulus support to Centres. In April, the monthly Learning Groups started again for the first time since November 2020. Knowing the toll that the pandemic has had on ECD practitioners and children, it was decided that the focus for Term […]
ECD Practitioners go the extra mile
Thuli is the founder of Masibambisane ECD Centre in the kwaMadlala Area. Over the years and especially during lockdown Thuli realised that most home environments in her community do not have enough resources or means to support the growth and development of children. Parents need support since some of them are working. Thuli started to […]
ECD Profiling Bizana
This year we expanded our ECD network to Bizana Municipality in Alfred Nzo District of the Eastern Cape. When we begin work in a new area our first aim is to make sure we reach all ECD services. Once we have a complete database of existing services, we support centres through our network meetings and […]
2019 ECD Profiling
There is a lack of data in the ECD sector in South Africa, this leads to many assumptions of what ECD services exist in communities. At NAG, these are three key questions that we need answers to in order to plan appropriate interventions to ensure a fair start in life for all children. What ECD […]
Infrastructure Update: Playground
CREATING AN OUTDOOR SPACE WHERE LEARNING & CURIOSITY ARE MAXIMISED At NAG, we are constantly developing ways to mobilise and maximise investments in order to improve the quality of Early Childhood Development (ECD) services in marginalised communities. We have identified the need to help ECD centres create stimulating outdoor environments as children currently have very […]
