by Laura Brooks | Jul 26, 2021 | Blog, Ilifa Insights, Lessons from the Field, Projects
This is the sixth and final blog in our series documenting the ECD COVID Response Project, whose major activities concluded recently. Over the next few months we will be compiling and releasing a number of exciting learning and advocacy products which will showcase...
by Laura Brooks | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Ilifa Insights, News, Projects
Ilifa Labantwana is a founding member of the Real Reform for ECD Campaign. We are backing and supporting this Campaign because we need an enabling legal and regulatory framework to achieve universal access to comprehensive equitable Early Childhood Development (ECD)...
by Laura Brooks | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog, ECD News, Ilifa Insights, Lessons from the Field, Projects
The ECD COVID Response Project has always been as much about gathering lessons to feed into long-term systemic change in the ECD sector, as it is about shorter-term relief and support to individual ECD sites and the children they serve during the COVID-19 crisis....
by Laura Brooks | Nov 24, 2020 | Blog, Lessons from the Field, News, Projects
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. This old saying seems apt in 2020, a year which many people are lamenting as one of the worst in living memory. Certainly is has been a tough year for all of us, not just in South Africa, but around the world. And the...
by Svetlana | Oct 18, 2018 | Blog, ECD News, Projects
In just over three years, SmartStart has trained over 3 500 people to fill the gap in early learning service provision by running playgroups – to the benefit of over 33 349 children across South Africa. SmartStart – founded in 2015 – is a social franchise that...
by Svetlana | Jun 7, 2018 | Blog, Projects
Vukuzakhe in Phelezeni village, Nquthu municipality, opened its doors 30 years ago to care for children while their parents were working away from home in the cities, but lately the centre has been facing a number of issues with the building. On rainy days...
