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Project brings hope to rural early learning centres

In uMzinyathi District ECD practitioners and non-profits are collaborating with encouraging results

Isisekelo preschool in Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Nata,l is one of four preschools in the uMzinyathi District where Khula Education provides learning spaces for local children. Photo: Khula Education

According to the Department of Education, over 1.3 million children aged three to five are not enrolled in early learning.
In the rural uMzinyathi District in KwaZulu-Natal, early childhood development (ECD) practitioners and non-profits are working to change that.
Non-profit Khula Education’s work with rural schools is showing encouraging results.

For almost five years, MaNtombi Zwane has run God’s Grace Daycare in Amoibe, near Rorke’s Drift, without state funding. She cares for 27 children aged six months to four years, charging R100 per month — an amount she knows cannot cover quality care…

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