Shoprite supports female community champions

Limpopo – A community in rural Limpopo celebrated following a partnership that resulted in a fully resourced creche, better-equipped carers and good nutrition for pre-schoolers.

The partnership between Shoprite and Sweet Home Daycare Centre in Xigalo village, Malumelele followed the call made by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his maiden State of the Nation Address to end poverty by educating poor children in early childhood.

Shoprite has and will in the coming months take hands with women heading up early childhood development (ECD) centres in a multi-pronged initiative that includes training for teachers and managers, structural upgrades and access to nutritional meals.

One of these women is Khomi Maluleke. She founded Sweet Home twenty years ago but faced many challenges maintaining the school, which provides a home away from home to 109 children under the age of five and employs six people.