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How unemployed youth are helping to bring education to toddlers

National Youth Service work opportunities are benefiting early childhood development access in under-resourced areas

  • Juanita Pardesi
  • Ximena Gonzalez-Nuñez
4 min read
ECD forums, if well run, have the potential to become essential resources in their communities. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
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Early childhood development practitioners – important for the future of our society and yet overlooked

One of their biggest challenges is getting parents to support ECD practitioners and day mothers and get more involved in their children’s development

  • Khanyisa Mkhabele
4 min read
ECD forums, if well run, have the potential to become essential resources in their communities. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
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Early childhood caregiving is the career that keeps giving

A programme that trains caregivers, mostly women, gives children a better start in life, helps close the gender pay gap and retains now-qualified women in the workforce

  • Phiwokuhle Raqa
4 min read
Early learning difficulties lead to school dropout, poor matric results, repeated school years and a less effective system for preparing young people for the world
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Early childhood development boost for parents and caregivers

More needs to be done to ensure that we raise children in a healthy ecosystem. Our children are our future and there is no other investment that could be more important

  • Dumile Pretty Ndimande
3 min read