Help 120 South African children attend pre-school

Our Achievements in 2021

In this period 15 February 2021 to 15 December 2021, Ubunye Educare Centre offered the following services to 120 pre-school children aged 5- 6 and their parents.

• Provided quality early childhood education for 120 children aged 5 - 6 from Dunoon Township to prepare them for primary education. Despite the COVID-19 lockdown, our preschool offered in-person and remote learning to all our learners with 100 per cent graduation rate. All our learners have successfully completed preschool and joined primary school. Ubunye attributes its success during these unprecedented time to collective efforts of in-kind and financial supporters including GlobalGiving, our staff and the parents.

• Provided routine paediatric health check-ups for general health and well-being of children enrolled in our care. All of our learners have undergone paediatric health check-ups for hearing and eye screening.

• Provided a balanced diet during school days for children enrolled in our care to meet their nutritional needs for growth and development of healthy children. In 2021, we served 46 080 meals to 120 learners during all the 192 school days.

• Offered an eight-week parent training to 19 parents in collaboration with WordWorks, a local NGO that facilitates a learning space for parents. During the training parents learned about children’s language and early literacy development.

 Challenges:

While COVID-19 remains a great challenge to our work, Ubunye has developed strategies to ensure that our staff and learners and their parents are safe. We conducted extensive education on COVID-19 prevention measures and protocols as prescribed by the South Africa Department of Health.

Future plans for 2022:

Ubunye envision to enrol 120 learners in 2022. We currently have 52 learners who will join us on 19.01.2022 for the academic year. These numbers will soon reach 120 as many parents only enrol their children in January each year.

We plan to continue to provide quality education and services to our learners and our community in 2022.

These services will include:

• Our academic programme
• Feeding programme
• Paediatric health check-ups
• 8 week parent programme