Chance to support ECDs

ELRU HAS PROVIDED TRAINING FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS

- SAMANTHA LEE-JACOBS

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.

Elru is hosting one of its biggest fundraising events 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, "having piloted various programmes and providing models for best practice. Its research of the sector has been used to advocate for universal access to quality ECD programmes throughout South Africa."

Elru runs programmes and interventions in the greater Mitchell's Plain, greater Athlone, Guguletu, Samora Machel, Khayelitsha, Dunoon, Kuils River, Delft, Saldanha, Vredenburg, Klupmuts, Franschhoek, Langa, Kayamnandi, Louwille, Witterklip, George Kerridge and Laingville in the Western and Northern Cape and North West.