With about 1.24 million South African children between the ages of 3 and 5 not registered at an adequate Early Development Centre, Early Learning Social Franchise, SmartStart is recruiting, training and licensing women to run their own centre in impoverished communities. To read more about the work that SmartStart is doing for children in South Africa, click here.
IOL coverage: SmartStart trains and recruits ECD practitioners to get 98 000 kids into early learning
