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News from some of our Projects

Celebrate Life ovens

LETCEE is very excited to be helping to start bakeries in some of our rural communities. With the help of Celebrate Life, we have managed to set up wood-fired ovens in three of the rural areas we work in. This means that six women will be starting their own bakeries, providing bread, muffins, pizza and other baked goods to their communities.

We are so grateful to Cherry Armstrong and Lindo for your training, support and willingness to serve the community. We look forward to a long and successful working relationship with you!

Let's See LETCEE day 2019

On the 13th June 2019, we spent a day out in some of the communities that we work in within Umvoti. We had sent out an invitation to those who would like to visit some of our projects, see what we do and understand why we do it. We hosted 2 bus loads and some of our partners where we they got see the work done on the ground. The morning kicked off at one of the bakeries where the visitors got to see the wood-fired ovens and got a chance to taste the freshly baked bread. Two other centres were visited and this was where the visitors could see the work done with children as well as food gardens.

We are very grateful to all those who attended despite the cold weather, and we do hope that everyone who attended got to understand our work. We do hope that it was the beginning and the continuation of good partnerships in ensuring that there is quality early education for all in our rural communities.

Njengabantu Children's Centre

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In February this year, we requested for assistance to repair the community hall in Njengabantu which was in a state of despair. We are pleased to announce that renovations are underway. We do however need further support to complete this work.

Once completed, The Toy Library which is right next door will move here. Children will have a safe place to play and we will provide 70 children with breakfast and lunch each day. School-going children will have a place to do their homework with adult supervision.

If you can help, or would like more information, please contact us!

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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.

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