Support Early Childhood Development in Rural SA

Thank you to each and every one of you for your support. We know times are tough, but food security is more important than ever. The children from the village of Sigagule who rely on Nourish for a warm meal come from vulnerable families... many of whom are even more vulnerable now during Covid-19. 

Without food, many families turn to other options, and as Nourish we stand by our belief in 'fighting poaching through fighting poverty'... the number of snares in the bush is increasing, which highlights for us how families in our area are struggling, with poverty, with hopelessness and with hunger. 

The ability for children to come to our center for a warm meal, makes a difference in our community. The ability for us to provide fresh and healthy food to our creche children, is a positive for the parents of those children. We are here to support, to feed, to educate and to provide these children with the nutrition they need to be happy and healthy. 

Despite lockdowns, we adapt, and when we cant feed the children at Nourish, we deliver food parcels, and when we can open... we do... From next week our preschool opens and over 50 children under the age of 5 will be in our care for 2 meals a day and a snack. 

Every cent you have donated helps. It helps young children, it helps their siblings and older children. It helps their families. It helps resilience and in the long run it helps the wildlife communities. 

THANK YOU for supporting our feeding program. 

What a year its been! We are so grateful to be able to provide a safe space as children come back to the Nourish Creche when the government allowed pre-schools to open again. 

In order to comply with Social distancing and to be COVID-safe in our limited space, we decided to only have our 13 graduates come back to school.  Our little children have missed many months of school, and this age is so important as they are learning to get ready for 'big school'. Armed with social distancing spacers, little hula hoops around the chairs and masks, we let the learning commence. 

Our two teachers Tinyiko and Bridget have been amazing, helping the children learn their alphabet and adjust to the new norm. The teachers have tried to make learning fun with lots of songs and games and we are so fortunate to be in early childhood development with these wonderful ladies. 

We have been able to support our other children at home with food parcels and continued gifts of resources so that they can keep developing and still feel like part of our extended family. So thank you to each and every person who has made this possible, you have also enabled us to keep providing healthy food to our children daily, and to contribute to our teachers who are there to help the children with their work, cooking their meals and helping them prepare for graduation. 

As they say...its takes a village (to raise a child), so thank YOU for being our village! 

Our Graduation will be on the 17th December so will share lots of photos on our social media and in the next report. Each child will get a school uniform as they graduate, and we wish all our special children luck on the next step of their educational journey. 

Again, THANK YOU!