By Dr Sarah Venter

Preschools receive toy boxes

Tshokotshoko village lies in a very remote part of the baobab area north of the Soutpansberg mountains.  The village is small and the Preschool supports the early education of the little children of the village.  Many of the children do not have toys to play with at home so the one place that they are able to learn to play [...] Continue Reading
By Dr Sarah Venter

Paint to brighten Denzhe PreSchool

During heavy rain and high winds the roof of Denzhe PreSchool was blown off.  With the help of local businesses the roof was repaired, but no paint was provided to touch up the freshly plastered walls.  The Baobab Foundation provided paint in all the different colours to get the Preschool back to the way its meant to look.
By Dr Sarah Venter

Baobab Books to 1000 Primary School Learners

On completing my PhD on the ecology of baobabs in northern Venda I decided to write an easy-to-read booklet on baobabs.  The purpose of this booklet was to share the importance knowledge of baobabs I had gained with South Africans and in particular the people who live in the area I did my research.  In 2016 I completed the booklet [...] Continue Reading
By Dr Sarah Venter

A fence and gate for Domboni Preschool

There are so many unforeseen needs of a preschool, the most important is a fence.   A few moths ago the Baobab Foundation helped Principal Mavis Tshiwela renovate a rundown building to create a classroom for her learners.  The next job was to put up a fence and a gate that would keep the children from wondering off and the preschool [...] Continue Reading
By Dr Sarah Venter

Baobab Foundation helps new Matatani Preschool with equipment

Matatani PreSchool opened its doors in February 2024, but the classrooms were bare.  There were no chairs and tables for the teachers, no buckets to collect water, no cooking pots for making food and so much more was missing that the school was about to close just as it opened. The container-buildings were donated by the University of Johannesburg as [...] Continue Reading
By Dr Sarah Venter

I live under a baobab, don’t know much about it, but now I do!

Nearly every child in Africa knows what a baobab tree is.  Nearly child in Africa eats baobab powder.  But beyond knowing what the tree looks like and that it has a nutritious fruit, very little is generally known about their ecology.   The Little Big Baobab Book (free pdf download available here) addresses FAQ’s of baobabs.  Translated into TshiVenda and easy [...] Continue Reading
By Dr Sarah Venter

A fresh coat of paint for Mutele B Preschool

Once a year we reach out to some Preschools in areas where baobabs grow and ask them what they need.  This year we supported the Mutale B Preschool with sourcing the exact colour paint required for their classroom renovations.
By Dr Sarah Venter

Building materials for new classrooms

Baobab Foundation supported Mukovhawabale Preschool and the Mbodi tsha Fhasi Preschool with much needed cement for the building of their new classrooms. Cement for Mukovawabale Preschool
By Dr Sarah Venter

Mukomawabane Pre-School Reopened

The children in Mukomawabane village have not been going to preschool for the past few years and thus the kids have losing out on the opportunity of formal early childhood education.  This is because the parents in the village, many of them unemployed and without more than primary school education themselves, did not see the value for children to go [...] Continue Reading
By Dr Sarah Venter

Denzhe Pre-school supports the community

“Each year there is more demand for the Preschool” says Principal Munzhelele “as the community grows so do the needs of the community”. In 2019 when the school was first opened by the Baobab Foundation, the school only have a handful of children.  "We are expecting a greater intake of children next year and we need to prepare for this in [...] Continue Reading