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Empowering Employees to Be the Best Parents They Can Be
In today’s demanding workplace, businesses can easily overlook the fact that their employees bring more than just skills, they bring entire worlds: their homes, families, aspirations, and life stresses. When the household of an employee feels supported, the ripple effect elevates performance, loyalty, and organisational culture. That’s why organisations like Rainbow Chicken and SIQALO Foods, have successfully implemented the DO MORE FOUNDATION’s Eat Love Play Talk (ELPT) programme in 2024 and 2025. Offering employees an empowering to improve their parenting with knowledge and skills that would also foster team psychological safety, individual resilience, and ultimately team performance.
Small steps, big shifts: Preparing ECD centres for a changing climate
Throughout F25, the DO MORE FOUNDATION has been laying the groundwork for a national response to one of the most overlooked intersections in climate adaptation: Early Childhood Development (ECD). Climate change is already shaping the world that young children are growing up in. Things like extreme heat, poor air quality, floods, and droughts all affect where children live, play, and learn, especially in under-resourced communities. The early years really matter (the years from conception to age 6), because a child’s brain and body are developing faster than at any other time in life. When their environment is unstable or unhealthy, it affects everything from their ability to learn to their long-term health.
INDEPENDENT EVALUATION: “EVERYONE GETS TO PLAY” BACKBONE PARTNERSHIP MODEL IN NKOMAZI
In Nkomazi, a decade-long public-private partnership is transforming early childhood development. This independent evaluation, conducted by Linda Biersteker, highlights the success of the Leave No Young Child Behind (LNYCB) initiative, underpinned by the Everyone Gets to PLAY model. With nearly 6,000 children reached, the model demonstrates how strong local coordination, community leadership, and a trusted backbone organisation can deliver real change. The Nkomazi example now informs national policy and proves what’s possible when collective action centres the needs of young children.
Father Figures in Focus: Highlights from the 2025 BaBonise Campaign
At its core, the BaBonise campaign works to shift mindsets and social norms, calling on men to show up in for their young children.
F25 Q4 Community Deep Dive Dashboards - Our Impact in Numbers
Our latest quarterly newsflashes are here! Each one showcases recent milestones and ongoing efforts in the roll-out of the “Everyone Gets to PLAY” model in each of the nine deep dive communities the DO MORE FOUNDATION's works in.
This edition offers a glimpse into the impact we're creating together, with key updates, inspiring stories, and photos from the field.
Thank you for your continued commitment to creating lasting, positive change in our communities.
How to Get Involved this Mandela Day
Here are the 2 ways people can get involved in supporting climate-resilience at ECD centres this Mandela Day with the DO MORE FOUNDATION.