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 | May 29, 2018 | Blog, ECD News
The Little Elephant Training Centre for Early Education (LETCEE) is a non-profit organisation that has been providing non-centre based ECD services to children in six rural communities within the Umzinyathi district of KwaZulu-Natal for a quarter of a century. In...
by Svetlana | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog, ECD News, News, Projects
June was a big month for the SmartStart Early Learning Playgroups Programme in the North West. The programme reached a record 1400 children, who had previously not been able to access formal early learning services. And for us, that’s a cause for celebration. The...
by Svetlana | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog
Our playgroup programme in the North West is successful because of the passionate SmartStarters who identify opportunities to fill early learning gaps in their communities. Here’s one of their stories… Growing up, Shakespeare dreamt of becoming a...
by Svetlana | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog, ECD News, Lessons from the Field, Publications
The Early Learning Playgroup Programme is an innovative public-private partnership, which trains government-contracted community workers in rural areas to run early stimulation playgroups for children aged 3 -5. The benefits for the children are access to a quality...
