SmileFM Interview: Owning a book can change a child’s life
On SmileFM, Kwanda Ndoda, Project Lead of Umncedi at DGMT, spoke about the importance of book ownership in boosting early childhood development. He explained how the pilot programme with Book Dash is putting a book into the hands of every child at participating ECD centres — often the very first books children will own. By […]
Op-ed: Women farmers: the missing link in South Africa’s food policy
South Africa’s food systems are failing the poor: a quarter of our population has limited access to food and one in four children under the age of five is stunted due to chronic malnutrition. This is because food is unaffordable for many households that rely on social grants as their main source of income. For instance, […]