The foundation of a society starts in the early developmental years of a child. “Children's early experiences – the bonds they form with their parents and their first learning experiences – deeply affect their future physical, cognitive, emotional and social development.”
SnAPSA believes that optimizing the early years of a child’s life is the best investment we can make as a society in ensuring their future success.
Working to build a network of ECD community based structures to support the children of communities in need will be one focus area of this Organisation. SnAPSA does not believe in reinventing the wheel. We will work with existing structures to build their capacity and sustainability, one CBO at a time.
Is not a stand-alone programme, parenting skills go hand in hand with developing a child’s experiences. Parenting skills programmes will help to encourage parent-child interactions. The programme can improve basic skills that a parent needs to understand the child’s developmental stages and their responsibility to CARE for the child effectively. Many parents have never had guidance on what being a parent entails, and in the current economic and social structures, never experienced effective parenting when they were growing up. They have no true reference point to guide them.
The principle of maintaining a local indigenous structure in each country is seen as a way of ensuring sustainability and also of transferring skills and knowledge. It will also support not doing something “for the people without the people” being involved in the planning and scale up.