‘We can’t help everyone but everyone can help someone’

As part of an Early Childhood Development (ECD) course, teachers from Northview Christian Academy studying towards their diploma took on a task during the recent school holiday.

July 26, 2018

Riana Joubert 1 minute read

Lizlé Pieterse gets her hands dirty to help those in need at Noah's Ark children's home as part of her ECD studies programme.

POLOKWANE – Their assignment gave them the instruction to go out and identify people in need and do an outreach programme with a centre which deals in early ECD. The centre needed to be close to their community and the group needed to identify their needs, get donations and then go out and help the centre with their needs.

Soryna Fourie and Charlene Pieterse bring some toys for the children at Noah’s Ark children’s home as part of their ECD studies programme.

The place they identified was Noah’s Ark children’s home between Polokwane and Tzaneen. The home helps children in need have a place to stay.

Andri Yssel, one of the teachers at NCA, helps out at Noah’s Ark children’s home outside the city.

Some of the home’s needs included grass for a play area for the children and some toys to help them play and development.

Ulanie Nel carries in some of the grass patches for the Noah’s Ark children’s home outside the city.

Charlene Pieterse, one of the teachers at Northview Christian Academy, said that the project helped her as a person to identify the need of children at the home and in general. “Projects like these help people be able to identify a need they may have overlooked in the past. It is a real eye-opener. We can’t help everyone but everyone can help someone. Each one of us can make a difference and together we can make a change. It is the small things in life that matter, even grass,” she said.