Letcee | Little elephant training centre for early education

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Partner with us to drive access to Early Childhood Development interactions in our community. Your contribution, large or small, will help them see a brighter future.

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Our mission is to build the confidence and capacity of families and communities to create nurturing environments for their children.

65000+ children need our assistance

This is just the tip of the ice-berg! With your assistance we can assist the children in our immediate community and expand to neighbouring communities.

We train ECD Practitioners

Only 12% of children who should be accessing early learning are doing so. With your support, we could increase the number of ECD practitioners we train and thus improve the number of children reached in Umzinyathi.

Where we target our attention: Umzinyathi district, KZN, South Africa

Mbuba

This project was established in 2008 after a community member approached LETCEE to request that we start a project similar to the one being run in neighbouring Matimatolo. Our trained ECD facilitators have been running non-centre based services in this area for the past eight years.

Eshane

The Eshane area under the leadership of the Sithole Tribal Authority is vast and includes the areas of Eshane, Engoje, Embangweni, Lilani, Sgedlane, Thulini, Mhlazane and Nseleni. There are 13 Abahambi and an ECD Coordinator currently working in the area, elected by the communities from which they came.

Msinga

Like the other communities we work in, Msinga is a poverty stricken area with few economic resources and little economic activity. There is poor access to early learning services. We are proud to be one of the implementing partners of SmartStart. This social enterprise of licensed franchisors is currently in the initial phase of what will be a national roll out of non-centre based ECD provision.

...and others

Our vision is for every child to develop and grow in a caring community.

News from some of our Projects

Graduation Ceremony

LETCEE had our Graduation Ceremony recently. The function was held in the Greytown Town Hall and was well attended. We had a guest speaker from Dundee, who delivered a wonderful speech on the importance of early education and the roles that these women will now fulfill. One of the courses we offer, is accredited training in Early Childhood Development (ECD); a two year qualification for a Further Education and Training Certificate in ECD. This is a nationally recognised certificate on the NQF level 4. We currently have 252 registered students for this course.

On Thursday 15 June 2017, 97 of LETCEE’s students graduated and received this national certificate. It was a day of singing, dancing and joyous celebration as the families of these students attended and supported the graduates.

We wish to congratulate all the graduates with this wonderful achievement! Your hard work, persistence and commitment have paid off. Now you can go into your communities to provide quality early education for our kids.

Big yield

We are so proud of our big yield! Look at what can be done... On Monday, we harvested vegetables from the garden at one of our projects. This project feeds 120 children daily, 365 days of the year. These vegetables will now be used to continue to provide healthy, balanced meals to the children of this community.

We have beneficiary parents and the older children who help us to maintain and improve the vegetable garden. The yield would not have been possible if we didn't have the participation of the community. Looking forward to more "good news" stories from this project!

Soup Kitchen Lunch

LETCEE organised and hosted a "Soup Kitchen" event on the 31st of May. The aim was to raise awareness of LETCEE, especially among groups that our marketing does not always reach. Around 50 ladies attended and it was a lovely day for all.

Kids from one of our communities kept the ladies entertained with some rhymes, songs and dance moves. One of our main attractions was Kate from LowCarbLife. She did a presentation on LowCarb Hacks and entertaining, which all the ladies found interesting and helpful. Lunch included soups, bread and cheese as well as some low carb desserts afterwards. Mary shared LETCEE's vision and current activities with the ladies - most of whom were shocked at our big footprint in these communities. Some were even in tears at hearing what LETCEE has achieved and is still achieving. (Read more here).

We believe our event was very successful and look forward to hosting more of these in the future!

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