How You Can Help:
All donors including individuals, companies, organizations, foundations, and churches can:
$15 Funds one or two educational toys, games, puzzles, books, or sports items.
$35 Funds one SOUNS phonics learning program (each preschool needs two).
$75 Funds one Play and Learn (PAL) Kit of 5 curriculum-aligned toys.
$150 Funds items for purchase at PEN’s incentive store. ***
$300 Funds one Kit of 30 musical instruments.
$3,000 Funds the expansion of Educational Toy Libraries to support 10 more daycares as they become preschools. Full capacity is 30 preschools and 3 coaches.
$7,500 Funds the startup of a new Toy Library Training Center including shelves, security doors, barred windows, tables, chairs, and sets of educational toys, books, games, puppets, puzzles, blocks, charts — a total 10-25 each of 120 different items, to lend out to 10 informal daycares as they become preschools.
*** Preschool owners gain points for attending weekly lesson planning sessions and monthly trainings, and for progress on their 6-month goals. “Earn to Own Points” buy dolls, carpet pieces, fire extinguishers, balance beams, scooters, books, wooden blocks, medical kits etc., essentials otherwise too difficult or costly to purchase.
South African individuals, corporations, organizations, foundations, and churches can also:
Help us establish and maintain Educational Toy Library Training Hubs on the grounds of an existing school, church or preschool. They can fund the expansion of a hub for 10 more daycares to become preschools. They can boost employment by supporting the salary of a PEN preschool coach. (ASAP cannot open and expand toy library hubs without the promise of 3 years of salaries, rent etc. from funders of the PEN nonprofit.) South Africans can introduce ASAP and PEN to friends and employers. Assistance with networking and fundraising will help us scale up this duplicatable model for implementation in all 9 provinces.
Contact Marlèse Nel, South Africa ASAP Director, at marlesenel@gmail.com.