Love Bear Campaign

Your R150 buys a teddy bear and 2 meals a day for a month for 1 child!

Most children under 7 years old who live in poorer communities have no access to education or pre-school. Yet, when they find an oasis in a local ECD Centre, there is a limit to what the ECD can provide.  They are cash-strapped, over-subscribed, and struggle to provide the comfort and nutrition their baby learners need.

Unless we support, nurture, nourish, and educate these precious children, we will perpetuate the social injustices and lose another generation in the process. After discussions with ECD Centre principals, we realised there are two key challenges that we, as an Organisation can assist with, namely nutrition and comfort.

With almost 70% of children living below the poverty line in South Africa. Many of them still do not have access to nutritious food to help develop their growing bodies and minds. Malnutrition in children continues to be a serious issue in our poor communities where access to the right food is limited or unavailable.

This is why we need to provide education programmes in schools about the importance of malnutrition in early childhood development. Nutrition education for kids will assist in their development through self-awareness through nourishment because a child cannot focus let alone learn on an empty stomach.

There are many schools and ECD Centres that fall outside of the Government’s quantile system.  Many of our beneficiaries who also manage on-site ECDs struggle to get funding and equipment to help run their establishments. They are also in need of food to feed the children every day, while also feeding the children in their communities.