ITEC is working with Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm to bring computer skills to Thornhill Combined School and community. It is very important that children become familiar with information technology to equip them for the 21st Century.

To read more about this project click on this link.

We are so thrilled! Our partners, Reach! South Africa, have provided a container for Khamisa Day Care Centre in Jingqi, a beautiful rural area in the Eastern Cape. This is the third container that Reach! SA has funded for this community, and they plan to deliver a container a year until each of the ECD Centres we work with in Jingqi have one. Thank you!  Your commitment makes such a difference to the children.  (Click on the pictures to scroll through)

If you would like to know more about the work Reach! SA has been doing in South Africa, please read their blog about it here.

The map below shows Jingqi on the east coast of South Africa.

The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply damaged early childhood services and programmes in South Africa. A survey by Ilifa Labantwana conducted in August 2020 found that:

• 42,5% of ECD jobs were lost during lockdown
• 93% of ECD programmes that managed to reopen are unable to cover their operating costs.

The Department of Social Development has now launched the an Employment Stimulus Relief Fund for ECD Services.  ECD services may apply for once-off funds to subsidise the costs of up to four employees.  The cutoff date for applicants is 19 February 2021.