Be part of the solution,
and change the course
of a child’s life
Be part of the solution, and change the course of a child’s life
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Our Story
We train PRACTITIONERS, PARENTS, and CAREGIVERS at a grassroots level to provide FUN, EDUCATIONAL activities that enable young children to develop, through play, the foundational skills for LEARNING, SUPPORTED by RESOURCES MADE SOLELY FROM RECYCLING.
We Have the Power to Impact Our Children’s Future, and We’re Doing Something About It!
Singakwenza is a fully registered Non-Profit Company
Reg number: 2011/001942/08
Public Benefit Organisation (PBO number): 9300 364 17
Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) number: 127-422
B-BBEE SOLUTIONS – Enterprise Development and Socio-Economic Development and an Empowering Level 1 Supplier.
WHAT WE DO
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What We Do
TRAINING & MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
This program focuses on educating, empowering and supporting ECD practitioners to create a safe, loving and stimulating environment that enables young children to develop through play, using toys made solely from recycled materials. We assist them in unlocking the ability of economically disadvantaged preschool children to develop resilience, learn through play and reach their full potential through a sustainable learning programme, and encourage a vibrant future where children are loved, well-rounded, and thriving.
WASTE 2 TOYS TRAINING WORKSHOPS
The Singakwenza Waste2Toys Training Workshops teach parents, practitioners and community workers how to make their own toys and teaching materials using recycling, and how to play with these with their children to develop foundational skills. Our goal at these workshops is to help practitioners and parents understand that it is the play that is important, not how much the toys cost. Expensive equipment isn’t what determines how well children learn. The same skills are developed when using a skipping rope.
LEARN@HOME PROGRAM
Our Learn@Home program reaches children in their homes. We run workshops for parents or primary caregivers based on activity boxes that contain carefully selected toys, ready made from household packaging, to develop a wide range of vital preschool skills. The training teaches the parents how to set up over 100 different learning activities and games using the materials in the boxes, and how these will help with holistic development of their children. Children learn best in a warm, engaged and caring relationship with the adults in their homes, so the Learn@Home boxes are designed to help them to provide simple, fun, hands-on activities that their child/children will enjoy. Any toys that break can easily be remade by the parent.
”Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela
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Our Impact
“Singakwenza must be one of the most innovative and effective interventions in early childhood education in Southern Africa…”
– Prof. Jonathan Jansen, Stellenbosch University
“Singakwenza must be one of the most innovative and effective interventions in early childhood education in Southern Africa…”
– Prof. Jonathan Jansen, Stellenbosch University
MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME
CRECHES BEING MENTORED THIS YEAR
CAREGIVERS BEING MENTORED THIS YEAR
CHILDREN PARTICIPATING IN PROGRAMME THIS YEAR
WASTE 2 TOYS WORKSHOP
TOTAL NUMBER OF WASTE 2 TOYS WORKSHOPS
TOTAL NUMBER OF DELEGATES TAUGHT
TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN BENEFITTING FROM WASTE 2 TOYS TRAINING
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