The Creche is BLOOMING!

The Masakhane Creche has been running for 4 months now. The crèche is open between 10h00 and 12h00 every Monday to Friday. Four mothers from the community are working at the crèche. These trainee teachers receive informal teacher training from a qualified facilitator once a week. Every week one of them also gets to do some in-service training at a local creche.

Through the generous sponsorship from ABI the Masakhane Creche will be open for longer each day as from the beginning of November. This will serve the mothers of this community well in freeing them up to pursue income-geneerating activities. It has also been decided that the creche will be registered as a seperate entity to ensure sustainability of this imprtant project.


A food garden has been established at the creche where the children get the opportunity to tend the garden while learning about plants and nutrition.

The Creche at Masakhane!

The pre-school children with teacher Susan in the edutainer




Volunteer Su West shows teachers how to make play-dough
Children playing outside on the playground
Coordination is developed through interactive ball-play

Educational centre for children at Masakhane

The pre-school children of this community have never had the opportunity to spend time in a nurturing and stimulating environment which could prepare them for their school careers. The arrival of two edutainers courtesy of IBA and The Bright Kid Foundation has marked the beginning of a new era for the pre-school children of Masakhane. Two fully equiped classrooms are now available to be turned into the type of educational environment which these children need.


Even children of school going age will benefit from the educational area. Programmes to keep children busy in a contstructive way during school holidays could add a lot of value to the lives of the children of this community. Their attendance of adult training programmes such as the fire training which was presented in Masakhane recently is significant of the fact that children at Masakhane are keen to engage in productive and interesting learning activities.


Three young teenagers (14-15) showed great initiative when they attended and completed the fire training course which was presented on a Saturday and have recently received their certificates.

The enthusiasm of the young people to take part in the activities of their community was evident in the 'gum boot' and traditional dances which were performed at the recent certificate ceremony.

The Masakhane Children blog will inform interested parties about the wellbeing of the children at the Masakhane settlement.