Cotlands scoops SA ECD Award
Cotlands Chief Executive Officer Jackie Schoeman said the organisation welcomed the recognition "with lots of gratitude".
COTLANDS has scooped a South African Early Childhood Development Award 2017 for its innovative Non-Centre based Early Learning Play Group (ELPG) programme – the awards ceremony was held on Thursday, February 23, in Ekurhuleni.
The ELPG programme is one of Cotlands’ innovative play-based early learning programmes, alongside toy libraries and mobile toy libraries, which are designed to give access to essential development opportunities to children in disadvantaged communities who are not in day-care centres.
Cotlands Chief Executive Officer Jackie Schoeman said the organisation welcomed the recognition “with lots of gratitude”.
“To us, this means our non-centre play-based programmes are a step in the right direction to give marginalised children access to ECD opportunities that they need for their skills development in language, mathematics and problem-solving, among others,” she said.
Schoeman also pointed out that one of Cotlands’ Early Learning Facilitators, Willow Mdlani, made it to the top 10 in the Practitioner of the Year 2017 category, which had a massive 2 000 entries.
“Congratulations to Willow Mdlani, who made us very proud. We wish to express our appreciation to the National Development Agency and its partners for the recognition of our nation-building efforts through making ECD opportunities accessible for all children,” Schoeman said.
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