Category Archives: Breadline Africa

Somelulwazi primary school library launch with SHOUT SA

Breadline Africa celebrates the opening of the 41st Mandela Day Library at Somelulwazi Primary School, Soweto. Funded and placed by SHOUT, BBDO and its non-profit arm, The MAL Foundation, in collaboration with Architects Of Justice Breadline Africa and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to place the S.E.E.D (Schools Extended Education Design) containers.

Ithemeleng Primary School library launch

Breadline Africa, together with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, partnered with Via Afrika, one of South Africa’s leading publishers of educational materials, to launch their national Digital Learning Centre initiative at Ithemeleng Primary School in Reddersburg in the Free State. See our photo summary from the event.

Readathon #NationalLibraryWeek

Local musicians and SHOUT SA founders, Danny K Official Page and Kabelo Mabalane gave National Library Week a welcome burst of star power by launching a new library at Eisleben Road Primary School in Mitchell’s Plain on Thursday, 20 March. The event forms part of the Official Mandela Day Library initiative, a partnership between the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Breadline Africa.

Lukhanyiso Educare launch – video

There are 6.5-million children in South Africa, only one million of those attend Early Childhood Development (ECD) facilities. Forty five percent of these facilities are not conducive to learning, 2 500 schools do not have access to water, proper sanitation or electricity. Breadline Africa’s upgrade to the Lukhanyiso Educare centre in Old Crossroads, Philippi, Cape&nbspREAD MORE >

World Toilet Day

Diarrhoea is the greatest killer of children under five in Southern Africa, according to a report on global sanitation commissioned by the United Nations. To mark World Toilet Day, which is held globally on 19 November every year, Cape Town based NGO Breadline Africa celebrated the opening of a new container toilet at Ukwanda Pre-School&nbspREAD MORE >