Amarula trust doubles size of rural early learning centre

South Africa: The Good News    Translate This Article
15 June 2011

Preschoolers from a marginalised rural community in Limpopo Province are to be given a major educational boost, thanks to the donation of over R500,000 from the Amarula Trust.

The trust, a not-for-profit initiative established to support community upliftment and conservation programmes, was instrumental in establishing ilNhlangasi Day Care Centre in 2005. Now it is funding the extension of the early-learning centre that caters to children from the communities living in and around Phalaborwa. Currently equipped with a single, large classroom and outdoor playing facilities, the teaching area will be virtually doubled in size.

The ilNhlangasi team of six teachers equips the children, who range in age from toddlers to pre-primary schoolers, with the building blocks for their formal schooling. Many are already familiar with the alphabet by the time they enter primary school.

By spring this year the centre will have an additional building that will include two new classrooms to better streamline the educational programmes for the close on 100 learners.

Says the trust's Rory Viljoen: 'Many of the learners are the children of the women who harvest the marula fruit from which we make Amarula. Research has shown that one of the most critical impediments to successful formal learning and the development of life skills is a lack of early-learning stimuli through games, story-telling, problem-solving and physical play.

'By exposing these children in a more ordered way to such activities, the centre hopes to give them a head start in life.'

The Amarula Trust focuses on promoting both social and geo-physical sustainability through a range of projects nationwide.

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