THE BRIGHTEST
FUTURES HAVE
A SMART START

SmartStart is taking quality early learning opportunities to children across South Africa. By activating a new generation of early learning practitioners known as SmartStarters, we are helping to ensure that all children have the right foundations in place to succeed at school and beyond. And by using a social franchise model, we can harness the experience and expertise of implementing partners to reach more children, much faster.

Annual Report 2019-20

We are delighted to share our latest Annual Report, for 2019-20. The theme of the report is ‘The power of the network’ – and this year our story is being told by the people who are SmartStart.

Click here for information on the Children’s Amendment Bill

Join us in the campaign to change the Children’s Amendment Bill, and to create a fair and inclusive regulatory system for ECD

New Report: Closing the gap in South Africa’s early learning provision

Our new report makes the case for a national early learning delivery platform. The report provides an overview of access to early learning in South Africa, and explains why a systems intervention like SmartStart is needed to close the provisioning gap and to enable population-level change in child outcomes.

Vho Issue 12

WE ARE BACK

2021 is upon us and let us all hope and plan for a much better year than we had in 2020. To help you on the path of planning for it our latest issue of Vho! includes a lot more from SmartStarters.

Previous Vho! issues