THE NEED
Access to Basic Healthcare & Early Childhood Education
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Early Childhood Education
The evidence is clear that when children lack an opportunity to develop their cognitive skills, negative social and economic outcomes result. The best way to prevent this tragic outcome is with investments in early childhood education, particularly targeted toward disadvantaged children and their families.
The most effective way to overcome the deadly cycle of poverty is to invest in a youn
g child’s education. This is especially true in South Africa, where millions of children become trapped in a cesspool of substandard education, lack of basic services, limited health care, and severe malnutrition. Children need a chance to breakout out of this despair. Your partnership with Side by Side can give them just that.
Healthy Nutrition
Hungry children cannot learn, cannot think clearly, cannot even imagine a hopeful future. Chronic hunger can prevent students from making the most of a formal education, no matter how hard they try to ignore its effects. The sad truth is that hunger can have physical and psychological effects on young children, which makes learning substantially more difficult. You can help change that. Your donation can give them a chance to live a life full of hope and promise.
That piece of bread or bowl of soup we take for granted just might be a South African child’s only meal of the day. Will you be a Side by Side Partner, and help give even one child an opportunity to learn and grow into the man and woman God intends?
