2026 Overview
Adopt a South African Preschool (ASAP) creates and maintains Libraries of Educational Toys in impoverished communities where most children languish in overcrowded daycares, safe, minimally fed, but not stimulated.
At each ASAP educational toy library, early childhood coaches provide weekly lesson planning and mentoring visits, and monthly workshops, helping informal daycares become dynamic preschools and more effective businesses. Principals and their staff love learning to teach with daily lesson plans as they use and care for toys, games, and resources. Children grow in every way through play, physically, emotionally, cognitively, and relationally.
Why Our Mission Matters:
~First grade predicts success in school and in life. 90% of brain developmenthappens (or not) by age 5. Some deficits will never be overcome.
~ 80% of South African fourth graders cannot understand what they read and 40% cannot read at all. ASAP donors fund a phonics program children love.
ASAP Donors have funded 9 Toy Libraries which uplift:
11,807 children, 242 preschools, and 1,231 women!
“Overcoming poverty is not charity… It protects the fundamental human right to dignity and a decent life.” (Nelson Mandela)
What Your Gifts Will Do!!!
$50 Funds 3 reading readiness phonics kits.
$100 Funds 5 games, 10 dolls, or sets of 100 handmade wooden blocks.
$300 Funds kits of 30 musical instruments.
$1,500 Funds annual maintenance and replenishment of a toy library.
$5,000 Funds adding 10 more preschools to a toy library (30 max).
$10,000 Funds start-up costs for new toy library training centers. This includes space renovation, shelving, security doors and windows, office equipment, and 112 different educational toys and resources forthe first 10 daycares which register to become preschools.