Connecting 🤝 to Collaborate 🔗 is how HBF chooses to start 2023! This quote by Helen Keller; "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." – Helen Keller speaks to the heart ❤️ of HBF's Why message - Early Learning for 0-2 is critical, making it available to all shapes communities! Thank you Connie Mmame from Leratong Hub (NPO dealing with skills development✍️ in Early Childhood/Motherhood/Senior Citizen/Youth Support) for meeting and opening your beautiful space

The teachers from Nanga Vhutsilo School learnt the importance of touching 🤝 with awareness and intention; • Calming the nervous system • Mapping the body part to the brain 🧠 • Very useful for kinesthetic learning (through physical activities) • Helping us express emotions (anger 😡, sadness 😭, fear, pleasure, disgust, surprised 😲) Monja is emphasizing how through touch the children can connect with their self-image by becoming more aware of their bodies. Children with poo

Becoming aware and tuning into ourselves through the body, supports Mental Health: "The lesson I am learning here is that it teaches me to understand 🤔 my body more than ever " - Sibongile Mkwananzi Founder of Nanga Vhutsilo. The Teachers 👩‍🏫 from this ECD center in Soweto give so much of themselves to the children. In order for the teachers to keep up the good work, they also need to be taken care of. A big part of the work HBF does is for parents/caregivers/teachers to m

Teachers from Nanga Vhutshilo in Rockville, Soweto learning and enjoying Tapping and squeezing as it is called in the Chava Shelhav Child'Space Method. Teacher Busi expresses how she feels relaxed 😌 and how the tapping helps to relieve pain in her back. These very specific hands-on techniques maps our body parts to the brain 🧠. This helps to bring a sense of feeling into the body and helps us to connect with ourselves and most importantly regulate the nervous system. Nurtur

Social and emotional wellbeing is key to Mental health for both adults and children 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 and includes; • Form and sustain positive relationships. • Experience, manage and express emotions. • Explore and engage with the environment. Parents/Caregivers and teachers in ECD facilities play the biggest role in socio-emotional development because they are meant to offer secure and consistent relationships for children. Hamba Bamba Funda's Early Childhood Education progr

We consider it vital to develop and roll out Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs starting from birth 👩‍🍼 in facilities within local communities. Skills development through ECE is a wonderful way to empower woman and in this case the teachers 👨‍🎓 from the Nanga Vhutshilo School in #Rockville, #Soweto. They had the opportunity to take time out for themselves to engage in experiential learning where the process takes place through thinking, feeling, sensing & moving. Th