Summer 2025 Overview
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 play and learn as daycare owners borrow educational toys, become teachers, and turn their settings into preschools. Everyone thrives!
Why Our Mission Matters:
~First grade predicts success. 90% of brain develop happens (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:
227 preschools and over 1,098 women and 11,487 children!