Eastern Cape,
South Africa.
A land of beautiful, talented people plagued by poverty.
81% of ten-year-olds in South Africa cannot read.
of South African children cannot read for meaning
do not receive any preschool education
of South African homes have no books
Meanwhile, South Africa has the world's highest unemployment rate.
unemployment rate in the world
South Africans live on less than $2 a day
of the unemployed are youth
Two crises. One solution.
We hire unemployed women and train them as reading and numeracy coaches in schools and preschools. One hire solves two problems at once.
Women enter their first jobs, gaining skills and income.
Their families have an income, often for the first time.
Children learn to read and write, unlocking all future learning.
By age seven, each child has heard 1,000 stories, building vocabulary and imagination.
Where we work.
Masinyusane works in over 150 schools and preschools across the Eastern Cape, South Africa's most impoverished region, serving some of the most impoverished children on earth.
schools and preschools across the Eastern Cape