This month we are sharing the stories of some of our amazing partners! Leave some love for Kgomotso in the comments.
Kgomotso Magabe has been the principal at Mamoketsi Creche for the past 7 years. She has experience working with children since 1994, and was inspired to open her own creche after seeing how difficult it was for parents in her Muldersdrift community. They had nowhere safe to leave their children, so Kgomotso opened a space where the children can learn and develop.
She has completed her ECD training to level 5 and is proud of having achieved this goal, as well as registering her creche as an NPO, securing a health and safety certificate, and consented use permission from the municipality. Kgomotso has shown tenacity in achieving all of these goals! She still has big dreams for her creche with further renovations in the pipeline.
Lockdown has been difficult as the creche was forced to close temporarily. This meant that Kgomotso’s source of income was cut off, and that she knew her families and children were suffering at home. She really enjoyed being able to share food, provided by AFFT and our sponsors, with these families to help them during this time.
As lockdown lifted and some parents went back to work she has been sad to see that they had no-one to leave their children with. As an educator, Kgomotso knows that her Grade R children will struggle next year when they get to school since they have missed so much learning. This week her creche was able to re-open, thanks to a generous donation from Bongani Rainmaker Logistics. ... See more
