ECD

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11 February, 2025

Penreach recently celebrated World Play Day under the theme “Rediscover Play, Recover Through Play” where we hosted nearly 1000 children to participate in 40 games designed to activate their imagination and encourage creativity. The theme was in recognition of the challenges societies across the world were...

03 June, 2022

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25 November, 2020

By Esther Sithole According to A Child’s Right to Play: Policy Brief for South Africa, “Play is both a right as well as essential for optimal development of children in their early and later years”. Play is not only fun for children but it helps them...

18 June, 2019

Penreach Play Day 2019 Mbombela – “Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.”- Fred Rogers. Penreach experiences the transformative power of play for young children on a daily basis, in pre-schools and homes across the region. But once a year, we celebrate...

10 June, 2019

By Poonam Dwarkaram What is water play in ECD? As Penreach Change Agents in ECD, our programme implementation plan consists of coaching and mentoring the Practitioners and Centre Managers of our target centres in Mpumalanga. This includes identifying different developmental activities and how to best implement them...

15 March, 2019

By Penreach ECD Change Agent Poonam Dwarkaram The natural playscape (or natural playground) is defined as a space with as little man-made components as possible. Using native plants, rolling hills, lots of trees; playscapes represent a natural place such as a forest. Playscapes are designed with the intent of bringing children...

27 August, 2018

Children need to play to learn and thousands of little children in Msholozi are able to do just that thanks to two dedicated Toy Libraries. “My son can now count numbers and I’m thankful to the project for teaching him” – Parent of child in...

09 June, 2017
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