Many years of making community-based ECDs fully operational

For more than five decades the Early Learning Resource Unit (Elru) has been at the forefront of early-childhood development (ECD), continuously evolving to meet the needs of young children in communities and advocating for transformative change across the sector.

- SAMANTHA LEE-JACOBS

It is hosting a big fundraising event at the Jive Funny Festival on Saturday 7 June at 20:00 at the Baxter Theatre, at R250 per ticket.

The organisation has provided quality early-childhood development training and services since 1978. “It is considered a pioneer in the sector,” Elru director Tracy Fortune said, “piloting various programmes and models for best practice. Its research has been used to advocate for universal access to quality ECD programmes.”

Elru operates in Gugulethu, Samora Machel, Khayelitsha, Langa, Dunoon, greater Mitchells Plain, greater Athlone, Kuils River, Delft, Saldanha, Vredenburg, Klupmuts, Franschhoek, Khayamandi, Louwille, Witterklip, George Kerridge and Laingville in the Western and Northern Cape, and North-West.

Facilities in Crossroads, Gugulethu and Nyanga are the Centre Support Programme (CSP). They provide ECD-centre principals and practitioners with tools for sound governance, leadership and operational best practices.