In Cape Town our BREAKFAST CLUB started supporting learners at Good Hope Seminary Junior School, Vredehoek, in February 2016. In 2019, we set up another Breakfast Club to support St Mary’s Primary School in Tuinplein Street, Gardens. At both schools, most of the young learners are bussed in daily, many from disadvantaged homes far outside the city. At home, there is often a lack of nourishment and children typically do not eat before leaving for school.

Parents with little income also often lack funding to address children’s learning difficulties assessment and therapeutic treatment that need attention from professional practitioners.  Our SMART CLUB operates at both Good Hope Seminary Junior and St Mary’s Primary Schools.

Our entire aim is to fill educational gaps. The level of inequality remains marked in South Africa.  Since schools’ closures enforced by the Covid pandemic,  we have seen even greater deficits in primary school learning among the economically disadvantaged, greater than South Africa had experienced before.

As we move into 2025, our BREAKFAST CLUB’s focus will initially be focussed on St Mary’s Primary School, with SMART CLUB continuing to address learning needs at both schools.  We would simply love, however, to expand both our areas of support to young learners’ education to a third school in the Cape Peninsula, as we know the need to be so great.