Project Grow

by Zero2Five Trust

 KwaZulu-Natal  Poverty Alleviation  Education  Job Creation  Health Care  Environment

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Direct Donations
R 156,510
Funded to date
R 156,510
Goal

This project is raising funds to establish 15 climate-resilient food gardens at Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres in rural KwaZulu-Natal. These gardens will provide nutritious meals to 500 children under 5, enhancing their development. We'll train 15 ECD practitioners and 5 youth in gardening and nutrition, ensuring sustainable gardens that improve food security for the wider community.

About Zero2Five Trust

Zero2Five is a non-profit organisation established in 2014 to promote holistic Early Childhood Development in formerly disadvantaged areas in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. We have a bold vision to create a future where every child in South Africa thrives by the age of five. We achieve our vision by focusing on improved nutrition, health and educational outcomes for children under five in marginalised communities by utilising an integrated, community-centred and sustainable systems approach through Early Childhood Development Centres. Our Theory of Change takes a three-pronged approach ensuring that (1) ECD practitioners have strengthened their capacity and are running sustainable ECD Centres offering quality early-learning programmes, (2) children have an improved nutrition status through adequate nutrition, food security and sanitation and (3) children’s physical, cognitive, and emotional development is age appropriate to ensure they reach their full potential to start formal schooling. In 2025, we have 321 unfunded pre-schools on our programmes, caring for over 11 000 children.

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Project activity

Funded to date:

R 156,510

Funding goal: R 156,510
NGO: Zero2Five Trust
Start: 1st March 2025
End: 22nd January 2026
NPO: 150-606 NPO
Field agent: Julika Falconer
julika@zero2five.org.za
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