{"id":1191,"date":"2022-06-17T01:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africaaplus.org.za\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2024-12-14T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T13:33:57","slug":"ecd-kouga-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaaplus.org.za\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"ECD Kouga Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

Phase Two of the ECD Kouga Wind Farm Community Development Trust project.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

The current project that A+ is involved in is the second phase of a five year project that is designed to improve the quality of ECD across a number of wards in the Humansdorp and surrounding areas.\u00a0 This is a collaborative project between A+ and the Centre for Early Childhood Development.\u00a0 A+ is working with teachers to assist them in acquiring the A+ approach to teaching and learning.\u00a0 In addition A+ is training a number of facilitators who will both assist in the training and help to sustain the project beyond the time of implementation. Phase two is a direct result of research that was conducted in 2019 in which a baseline study isolated what the needs of the different ECD centres are.\u00a0 A+ stands for quality and is aware that quality takes time to grow and develop.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

October 2020: The Kouga Windfarm Trust ECD Project<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

October was a productive month in the Humansdorp\/St Francis area of the Eastern Cape. Africa A+, on behalf of the Kouga Windfarm Trust,\u00a0 facilitated the professional development of 10 novice facilitators from the local ECD community, set up an M&E system for monitoring the development of 33 ECD centres, and networked with the local community.\u00a0 Each activity is discussed below in more detail:<\/p>

  1. The professional development of Kouga ECD facilitators<\/strong>. The purpose of developing a team of local ECD facilitators is to create sustainability. In other words, when the Kouga ECD project ends and the Africa A+ team have gone, the local ECD facilitators (who have been trained and mentored for five years) will continue to develop and support the Kouga ECD centres.<\/li><\/ol>

    Local ECD practitioners interested in becoming ECD facilitators were invited to participate in three days of \u00a0facilitation training from 13 \u2013 15th<\/sup> October. This open application recruitment process offered the local ECD community equal access and helped Africa A+ to get to know each applicant before selecting the team of local ECD facilitators.<\/p>

    Twelve ECD practitioners from Wards 1, 4, 5, 6, and 15 attended the three day A+ facilitators\u2019 training on the 13 \u2013 15th<\/sup> October 2020 at the Rainbow Centre caf\u00e9 in Humansdorp. The Rainbow Centre offered the venue and wifi at no cost and provided tasty budget-friendly lunches for R40 per person.<\/p>

    Behind the fun lies a serious intention: if we want our ECD centres to nurture the children\u2019s creativity, then we first need to make sure that the ECD practitioners are in touch with and enjoy their own creativity.<\/strong><\/p>

    Implementation of learning<\/strong> is key to change and development.<\/strong> Four practitioners posted photos on Whatsapp showing the implementation of activities (experienced during training) at their ECD centres. The photos below show two: Elsie Vermaak set up a skittles number game at Siembamba, and Ntombomzi Ndamse did a mosaic activity at Masikhule (the photos on the left are the activities experienced by Elsie and Ntombomzi at the ECD facilitators\u2019 training; the photos on the right are the children doing an adapted version of the same activity at their ECD centres).<\/p>

    Application to be part of the local ECD facilitation team<\/strong>. After the training, eleven practitioners applied to join the local ECD facilitator. Each applicant submitted a CV with a letter of motivation and was subsequently interviewed by Jessica Blom (project manager) from the Centre for Early Childhood Development (CECD) and Anya Morris and Yolande Delport (Africa A+ team). The following local ECD practitioners were appointed and contracted by CECD to the local A+ facilitation team.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

    Setting up an M&E system for the Kouga Windfarm Trust ECD project. <\/strong>Three surveys were created by the Africa A+ team:<\/p>