Empowering Practitioners
Poverty in many South African communities is a harsh reality, and the children are the ones who suffer the most. However, there is a glimmer of hope! We are indebted to the brave men and women who have given their time, energy, and resources to establish and operate Vulnerable Children Centres. These centres provide a safe haven for extremely vulnerable children and offer essential services like education, healthcare, and food. These remarkable individuals need our support to continue providing for the children and helping them reach their full potential.
Children need physical, cognitive, emotional, mental and spiritual developmental support. In partnership with the Love Trust, we provide a holistic, contextual approach to developing holistic ECD practitioners so they can care for extremely vulnerable children and their families in impoverished communities.
Holistic ECD practitioners are taught to facilitate sustainable food production among the community including parents and caregivers.
Holistic ECD practitioners are taught excellence in accredited Levels 4 & 5 Early Childhood Development (ECD) Facilitation.
Holistic ECD practitioners are taught community social cohesion skills involving parents and caregivers through self-help savings groups.
Sustainability of the centre and the community is improved through Holistic ECD practitioners practising, teaching, and guiding basing income generation skills.
Holistic ECD practitioners are trained to share the Gospel of Jesus with children and their families through constructive contextualised Bible study.
The early childhood phase, spanning from birth to nine years, is a crucial period for human development. It is essential to provide good health, proper nutrition, and early learning to ensure children’s well-being and lay the foundation for life. ChildVision aims to address these needs by training holistic Early Childhood Development (ECD) practitioners to equip children and strengthen their families (parents, caregivers, and guardians) to provide a suitable environment for physical, emotional, and social development.
ChildVision believes that the most effective way transformation can take place is by equipping centre workers at rural Vulnerable Children Centres to become holistic ECD practitioners.
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
James 2:15-17 ESV