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Long term, sustainable help for pre-schools in poor areas - NPO93139
We work with 5-6 children centres at a time in very poor areas. Our Gauteng pilot project consists of 5 children’s centres in Tsepisong and Slovoville on the West Rand.
Donations of the following are desperately needed
1. Funding for running costs (trainers, telephones transport)
2. Building materials
old/new Wendy houses
container offices
fencing
concrete
tiles
huts we can put toilets in
toilets
ceilings
zinc sheets, poles
3. Toys: Blocks
toy cars
planes
boats
plastic animals
little people
toy stoves
cots, dolls, prams,
old handbags, dress up clothes
picture books (stories and non-fiction)
inset puzzles, 2- 25 piece puzzles
pre-school educational games/ cards
construction toys (lego, duplo sticklebricks ect)
water and sand play toys
dolls houses
climbing apparatus
balancing boards
wheeled toys
bats and balls, skittles and baby toys of all kinds
4. Second hand furniture
tables
cupboards
soft chairs, chairs
coffee tables (good for doing art and eating)
bedside tables (can be turned into stoves and other fantasy furniture)
bookshelves (for displaying toys and demarcating areas, cubby hole shelves for children’s ‘cubbies’
pillows, cushions (book corners)
old blankets and sheets (magic blankets)
old fitted and other carpets and mats.
5. Paintbrushes
paper and card of any kind and size
chubby crayons, oil pastels, charcoal
pre-school pencil crayons
powder paint, clay, ambi scissors, glues
food colour, flour, salt, oil, playdough toys
6. Stationary for teachers
files, koki’s, adult scissors
paper punches, staplers, pens, pencils
We work hard to provide comfortable and safe buildings, pleasant and educational playgrounds and appropriate play and educational materials. We also ‘walk with’ the educare teachers intensively over a period of three years to train and support them in using a good pre-school programme, to include and educate parents, cope with maintenance and to try to get them registered so that they can become economically viable and self-supporting. Psychologists work with teachers to help them to cope with troubled children. In these areas many children have lost parents and have been victims or have witnessed traumatic events.
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