Play with a Purpose Educational Trust trading as Preschools 4 Africa

Recently Play-with-a-Purpose Educational Trust has rebranded as Preschools 4 Africa. Preschools 4 Africa has its roots in the Play-with-a-Purpose educational programme which was founded in 1991. Registered as an Educational Trust in 2002. The Play-with-a-Purpose Trust is a South African non-profit organisation that has had over 20 years of Community Development and Early Childhood Development experience. We currently mentor over 80 preschools in Gauteng and North West Province, with a presence in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.

Preschools 4 Africa aims to assist young children in their quest to obtain quality and relevant early childhood education in order to ensure that they are in a position to ultimately be gainfully employed and become global citizens. Research indicates that a child that does not receive the correct education in the first five years has a 70% chance of being arrested for a violent crime and has less than a 30% chance of entering tertiary education. We aim to be part of the change in uplifting education in the fight against crime.

The effectiveness of the Play-with-a-Purpose programme implemented through Preschools 4 Africa has been published as a research article in the International Journal of Child and Youth Care: CYC-Net, through Monash University, South Africa.

Preschools 4 Africa is a much consulted expert in the field of Early Childhood Development having been featured as Play-with-a-Purpose on the following: ETV; Morning Live; Pasella; Kaelo; Let’s Fix It; the After Dark with Eric show on SA FM; and on ETV’s Great Expectations – How to find the Perfect Pre-school, and others.

• Who We Are

-Level 2 B-BBEE contributor
-Registered Public Benefit Organisation which allows us to issue Section 18A Tax deductible certificates. P.B.O: 930 000 189
-Trust Fund No: IT6379/01
-NPO registration: 040-711-NPO
-Board of Trustees

Our motivation ‘Change the first five years and you change everything’.


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