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CEO of The Unlimited Child wins 2024 Women Of The Future Award.
Candice Potgieter, CEO of The Unlimited Child, has been crowned the winner of the prestigious 2024 Santam Women of the Future Award in the Social Entrepreneur category. This win not only celebrates Candice’s remarkable leadership but also shines a spotlight on The Unlimited Child’s commitment to early childhood development in Southern Africa.
Strategic Partnership Helps Tackle Early Childhood Development Crisis in South Africa
Internationally acclaimed non-profit organisation, The Unlimited Child are proud to announce their newly established partnership with National Treasury’s Jobs Fund.
Our CEO, Candice Potgieter, named as a finalist in the 2024 Santam Women of the Future Awards.
The Unlimited Child, the largest and leading Early Childhood Development (ECD) non-profit organisation in South Africa, is incredibly proud to announce that their CEO, Candice Potgieter, has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2024 Santam Women of the Future Awards in the Social Entrepreneur category.
The Unlimited Child Wins Prestigious Khalifa International Award for Education
The Unlimited Child, the largest and leading Early Childhood Development (ECD) non-profit organisation in South Africa, has won the prestigious Khalifa International Award in The Early Learning Field for Best Programme, Curricula, and Teaching Practice.
The Lego Foundation selects The Unlimited Child as key implementation partner
The Unlimited Child (TUC), one of South Africa’s leading Early Childhood Development (ECD) organisations, today announced that it has been chosen by The LEGO Foundation as their research and implementation partner in Africa as part of the pilot of its Playful Learning Across the Years (PLAY) toolkit.
From Gardener to Top Awarded ECD Practitioner in SA
From a humble start to being recognised as one of the best in the country, this is how we supported Thokozani Msimang to enable his dream and make a huge shift in his life to benefit his community – to serve as an inspiration for those in the ECD space.
From Low-Impact to Sustainable Success
An underperforming creche and the vital intervention that unlocked success and sustainability. This is how we helped shift rural Ndabayakhe ECD Centre from low-impact to highly recognised, successful and appreciated micro-enterprise in the Empangeni region.
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Over R30 million was raised for ECD Centres, children attending the programme and their families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This relief assistance involved grocery vouchers, stipends and measures for the safe opening of ECD Centres.
This has ensured that over 95% of ECD Centres within our network were able to recover and continue as sustainable micro-enterprises where early learning continues.
KZN Civil Unrest
During the week starting 11 July 2021, South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces experienced widespread unanticipated unrest and looting.
Most of the catastrophic activity took place in KwaZulu-Natal, negatively impacting the most vulnerable people in the province, our children.
Safety and food supplies were impacted and the effects reverberated thoughout the province. Through a R4 million grant from Elma Philantropies and the LEGO Foundation, The Unlimited Foundation, together with the Gift of The Givers, was able to support over 7 000 families in the province..
Providing this support to our beneficiaries ensured stability and avoided any further dropout from the programme.
KZN Flood Relief
In April 2022, the KZN flood disaster gravely affected several coastal communities in KZN with devastating impact felt on 887 ECD Centres within The Unlimited Child’s network.
Through quick action The Unlimited Child was able to raise over R4.5 million to assist in food, sanitary and water relief to those affected, as well as repair damaged ECD Centres so that early learning and attendance by children was not hampered.
