Gift Package: Support the construction of a new building for Kiddies Educare Preschool

Kiddies Educare is an overcrowded preschool in Philippi, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, South Africa. Since 2007, SAEP has provided Kiddies with blankets, mattresses, toys and nutritious snacks, and worked closely with the principal and staff to build management capacity and provide educational activities for the children. However, the preschool is only a wooden shack. It is far too small for the children and has no running water or toilets. Without a structure, it cannot qualify for much-needed government funding. SAEP has been raising money to build Kiddies a brand new center since 2008. In June 2011 the building plans were finally approved, and we are just short of the $73,000 necessary to begin the project. With your donation, we can start construction to provide the children at Kiddies with a safe, weatherproof new school and can furnish it with toilet pots, kitchen utensils, tables, chairs, educational toys and other much-needed items.