Breadline Africa

11/08/2026

We are growing our supplier network and we want to hear from you.
Breadline Africa is looking for local contractors and alternative building solution suppliers to join our database. If you work in construction, maintenance or innovative building solutions and take real pride in work that lasts - this is your invitation.

We work across all nine provinces and we are actively looking for suppliers who know their communities and want to be part of something meaningful.
Two opportunities are open right now - for local contractors and for alternative building solution suppliers.

Full details here: https://breadlineafrica.org/request-for-suppliers/

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09/08/2026

"A child who won't join a noisy game can look like she is being difficult. Often she is overwhelmed."

That is Ncebakazi Dlokova of Sikhona Educare, describing what shifted for her after a perceptual skills training day.

Early childhood development in South Africa is held up almost entirely by women. They run the centres, they teach the children, and they carry the responsibility for whether a four-year-old arrives at school ready to learn. When they sharpen their own skills, thousands of children feel it.

This Women's Day we are thinking about them. Not as people we help, but as the people doing the work.

To every practitioner who gave up a working day to get better at something she was already good at - happy Women's Day.

Watch how an incredible collaboration between the Hyve Group, ORT SA CAPE, Mining Indaba, Finding Thabo and Breadline Africa creates meaningful impact for more women in early learning.

06/08/2026

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

While visiting our donors in the UK and Ireland, we were lucky enough to be invited by the team at The Boma to join their Springbok match days, and what a time we had.

To everyone who came by our stand, grabbed a boerie, entered the raffle or had a go at our co****le, you made these days so special. A special thank you to Marbled & Cured for the use of the braai, to our generous raffle prize sponsors and to our amazing volunteers who rolled up their sleeves and made it all happen. We are endlessly grateful.

And for everyone we met for the first time - Breadline Africa provides safe, dignified learning spaces for children in South Africa's most under-resourced communities. Classrooms, kitchens, libraries and safe toilets, so that children have somewhere decent to learn.

Good company, good boeries and a good cause, with some proper Bok victories to top it off. Thank you, from all of us at Breadline Africa.

05/08/2026

A child's future can be decided long before they reach a classroom.

In episode 4 of Our voice, our future, Rachel Kolisi, speaker, author and philanthropist, speaks with David Harrison, CEO of the DG Murray Trust, about the first 1,000 days of a child's life and what happens when help arrives too late.

When the nearest clinic is too far to walk, prevention never arrives. This episode is about what that costs a child.

Listen now: https://breadlineafrica.org/podcast-our-voice-our-future

28/07/2026

Big news: our 2025 Impact Report is here, and for the first time we can show the evidence behind what we have always believed.

The headline finding: pre-schools that received both our infrastructure and a partner's educator support scored 84% on independent learning-quality assessments. Sites that received infrastructure alone scored 47%. That is a 37-point gap - proof that safe spaces are the foundation, but partnership is what turns that foundation into real opportunity for children.

In 2025 alone, we completed 310 infrastructure units across 79 sites, reaching over 22,000 children and community members. Our Pit Toilet Campaign has now installed 1,028 toilets and urinals across more than 50 schools, reaching over 18,500 learners.

None of this happens without people who choose to show up for children. Thank you to every partner, donor and supporter who made this year's work possible.
Read the full 2025 Impact Report here: https://breadlineafrica.org/safe-learning-spaces-transform-childrens-futures-our-2025-impact-report/

27/07/2026

We are so proud. This year's PNA - Colour your World Funky Socks Day campaign has already raised R1 million towards its R2.5 million target, and Funky Socks Day itself, 11 September, is still weeks away.
Five years ago, Breadline Africa became one of PNA's beneficiary organisations. Five years on, that partnership keeps translating into resource packs, learning materials and safe early learning spaces for children who need them most.
Thank you to PNA, and to everyone who has already grabbed a sticker. You can too - pick one up for R10 at any PNA store nationwide and read the full story behind this partnership on our blog.

Read more:

PNA Funky Socks Day is a national fundraising campaign that brings schools, families and workplaces together in support of children in need.

24/07/2026

50 schools. R4.4 million raised. One goal: every child deserves safe, dignified toilets.
Thanks to , East Coast Radio, 94.2, METRO FM and every listener who gave, dangerous pit toilets have now been replaced at 50 schools across South Africa. Almost a million children are still waiting - but today, thousands more learners get to focus on school, not survival.

Read the full story: https://breadlineafrica.org/how-south-african-radio-listeners-raised-r4-4-million-to-replace-unsafe-school-pit-toilets/

18/07/2026

There is a new door at Apex Primary School - and behind it, shelves full of stories waiting to be read.

In South Africa, 81% of Grade 4 children cannot read for meaning. That will not change overnight, but it changes one library at a time. On Friday we opened this one with our partners Capfin, Tenacity and Pepkor Payments & Lending, whose teams gave their 67 minutes and plenty more.

Happy Mandela Day 💛 It is still in our hands.

10/07/2026

There are partnerships that feel transactional and then there are those that begin to feel like family. For Breadline Africa, PNA Funky Socks Day has become the second kind.

This year marks five years of being a beneficiary of the campaign, alongside Rally to Read and Matla a Bana. In our latest blog we reflect on what that journey has meant, and how a R10 sticker helps give children in under-resourced communities a safe place to learn.

Read the full story by clicking the link in our bio.

PNA Funky Socks Day is a national fundraising campaign that brings schools, families and workplaces together in support of children in need.

06/07/2026

BIG HITS, BOERIES & HIGHLAND SPIRIT.

The rivalry rolls on as South Africa takes on Scotland live at The Boma in London this Sat 11 July 2026.

Join Breadline Africa for another unforgettable Boerie Braai. An incredible atmosphere and another chance to support of Breadline Africa’s work restoring dignity and opportunity for children and communities.

🎟️ Tickets available now. https://theboma.co.uk/etn/springboks-vs-scotland/?utm_source=BOMA&utm_medium=digital&utm_campaign=boerie%20braai&utm_content=get%20tickets