Spring 2025 Overview of ASAP

Our Mission:

Adopt a South African Preschool (ASAP) creates Libraries of Educational Toys in impoverished communities so children can learn through play.

Most South African children languish without stimulation in overcrowded, informal daycares. At each toy library, Early Childhood Coaches from our partner “PEN” provide curriculum training and mentoring visits for 30 daycares.

Now children can thrive as daycare owners borrow educational toys, learn to teach, and gradually turn their settings into preschools. Everyone grows!

Why Our Mission Matters:

• First grade predicts success. 90% of the brain develops (or not) by age 5.

• 80% of South African fourth graders do not understand what they read.

• 40% of fourth graders cannot read at all.

ASAP donors have funded 8 Toy Library-Training Centers serving:

225 preschools and over 1,000 women and 11,000 children!!!!!

Donors uplift children, women, and communities!
Giving a child a future stops the generational poverty cycle.