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6 days ago
1 min

Bryanston Country Club Reaching out

"Every happy moment created for a child is a treasure for a life time." BCC has put many smiles on the faces of young children by includ...

Aug 3
1 min

Play Africa - Play, Heal & Connect

Play Africa, a partner of Care for Education, has distributed sets of Six Bricks and activities booklets to parents. The distribution of...

Jul 27
4 min

Learning through play the THANDA way

To find our more about how one of our partners in KZN is doing incredible work with children and their families in rural KZN please read ...

Jul 23
1 min

KZN Oncology Ward meets Six Bricks

A KZN oncology ward was visited by the Rainbows and Smiles team to distribute some fun and educational activity packs. Each pack containe...

Jul 23
1 min

Creative kids during COVID

DUPLO bringing great joy to children when they are unable to attend school.

Jul 21
1 min

Super Six Bricks Smiles

Today Care for Education distributed Smiley masks to Allmighty Daycare in Bloubosrand to ensure children could safely enjoy their Six Bri...

Jul 21
1 min

Collaboration amongst kids

As part of their Outreach programmes Scripture Union provides LEGO and DUPLO to different Children’s homes. These children were very exci...

Jul 15
1 min

Happiness in Hammanskraal

There was great excitement amongst house mothers and children, who have been waiting patiently to go back to school, when Scripture Union...

Jul 15
1 min

LETCEE brings learning to Umzinyathi

LETCEE, an NPO based in Greytown, has 3 mobile Toy Libraries which provide play opportunities for children at regular Play sessions and f...

Jul 15
1 min

Rainbows and Bricks in the Oncology Ward

Rainbows and Smiles recently brightened up one of the oncology wards here in Gauteng, bringing both colour and joy in the form of activit...

Jul 15
1 min

LEGO comes to the party for home-based learning

This article appeared in the Grocott's Mail in Makana - Grahamstown. Over the past two weeks CSD staff members, Nolly Shelle, Boniwe Msi...

Jul 14
1 min

Science fun with Six Bricks

This little girl was very proud to be able to demonstrate what she learnt about floating and sinking while completing Six Bricks activiti...

Jul 14
1 min

LEGO in the heart of Joburg

City Kids pupils were overjoyed to each receive their own LEGO sets distributed by Scripture Union. For many of them this was the first t...

Jul 13
1 min

Balancing with Bricks

Families in Pretoria felt blessed to received DUPLO packs from Scripture Union. These children have not seen the inside of a classroom si...

Jul 10
2 min

Teacher-Parent positively influencing her parent-community!

A practitioner from one of our partner ECD-centres, Humble Little Achievers, has also been a beneficiary of the Six Bricks at Home Initia...

Jul 8
1 min

Siblings bonding over Six Bricks

It's been lovely to observe siblings interacting, bonding and playing together in the home, with Six Bricks. Whether its older and younge...

Jul 7
1 min

Six Bricks in action in Diepsloot

The Khulani ECD community were very excited and thankful to receive Six Bricks and Activities booklets. Teachers are certain it will “be ...

Jul 7
1 min

Six Bricks: A great support tool for home learning!

Hurlyvale Preschool and Pre-Primary recently became a part of our Six-Bricks-at-Home COVID19 Initiative. The school has been providing on...

Jul 3
1 min

Dads and their kids loving Six Bricks!

The availability of Six Bricks in homes has led to an increase in fathers' involvement in their children's playful learning experiences. ...

Jun 29
1 min

Six Bricks in the Eastern Cape

The Centre for Social Development @ Rhodes, under the guidance of Nicci Hayes, received 1920 sets of Six Bricks and activity booklets to ...

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