THE Robin Hood Foundation appealing to the community to support its ‘Love to Read’ campaign.
Cindy Norcott, chairlady and founder of The Robin Hood Foundation, said: “We believe that education is the main key to eradicating poverty and we would like to focus a large amount of attention on Early Childhood Development in 2017 as this is the most important area to get the foundations right for small children to be able to learn and grow to their full potential.”
The first five years of a child’s life are fundamentally important as they are the foundation that shapes children’s future health, happiness, growth, development and learning achievement at school, in the family and community, and in life in general.
“Sadly, in our communities, most of the children in the more rural areas are just left with an untrained care giver at a ‘crèche’ or day care facility whose main function it is just to see that they are fed and looked after while their gogo or single mum or dad work. While we are seeing and meeting some incredible people in the community that are starting these crèches with such good intention, the reality is they just do not have the funding to provide any proper educational value to these children making the gap to bridge when starting Grade R at seven years old, even more of a leap,” said Cindy.
Robin Hood Foundation is appealing to the public to help the organisation to reach its goal to provide educational upliftment for up to 20 creches, by collecting 5000 books and educational toys that will help with the children’s development.
The public can help by donating brand new colouring in books and crayons and donating excellent condition second-hand books for all ages and educational toys or puzzles (only complete pieces). The public can also donate marshmallow Easter eggs for their Easter parties, corporates can donate a bookshelf with a plaque for R1000 or individuals can donate R50 to the Love to Read campaign.
If you would like to get involved, contact Kim Griffith Jones on 076 612 9060 or email robinhoodfund@telkomsa.net.
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