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Join work that is already under way.
A gift to the Indaba Foundation prepares the adults who shape a child's earliest years, keeps mentors in their classrooms afterwards, and pays for honest, independent evidence of what is working.
Why we exist
The Indaba Foundation exists to give every child a fair start to life. We do it by preparing the adults who shape a child's earliest years — the women who already run early childhood centres in their own communities — through Community Rooted Education: seven months of Montessori-rooted training, followed by mentoring in their own classrooms.
Children do not experience a system; they experience the adult beside them. When that adult is prepared, the room changes, and the child's chances change with it.
A gift to the Foundation funds that preparation, the mentoring that makes it stick, and the independent evidence that tells us honestly what is working.
What support enables
Where the money goes.
The Foundation does not run early childhood centres. It prepares, mentors and measures the adults who do. These are the parts of that work your gift pays for, with what the sources show about each.
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Training
CoRE is a seven-month course delivered one week a month, so practitioners keep their jobs while they train. More than 500 women teachers have trained so far.
Source period: as of 2024 · October 2026 · 2023
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Mentoring
Facilitators keep visiting each centre for at least five months after the modules end. In 2023 alone that meant 892 centre visits and 672 hours of mentoring and coaching.
Source period: as of 2024 · 2023
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Facilitators
Five active facilitators deliver CoRE today. The Facilitator-in-Training year adds 70 hours of community-building and centre visits on top of the seven modules, so graduates can become trainers.
Source period: June 2026 · as of 2024
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Evidence
An independent ELOM assessment in June 2026 found 81% of 48 children in 15 CoRE-affiliated programmes in Kayamandi on track for their age, against a national figure of 46%. It is a once-off snapshot, not proof of cause.
Source period: June 2026 · 2024
Figures are drawn from Indaba's 2024 Impact Overview, the 2024 Prospectus and the June 2026 ELOM evidence briefing; 2023 figures describe that year, not a running total. No cost-per-child conversion exists in the sources, so none is offered here.
The latest evidence
Kayamandi, June 2026
81%
of children on track overall
June 2026
46%
national baseline (Thrive by Five 2024)
2024
48
children assessed
June 2026
15
CoRE-affiliated programmes
June 2026
A once-off assessment by an independent, accredited ELOM assessor, conducted in isiXhosa in a single community. It describes where these children are; it does not establish that CoRE caused the result.
Other ways in
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Indaba Wines
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Other ways to give
Not everything needs a card.
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By check
Checks are payable to The Indaba Foundation and can be mailed to:
The Indaba Foundation
68 Bradhurst Ave Apt 5U
New York, NY 10039
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By bank transfer
US domestic transfers: ABA routing 021000021 · account 726680858. International transfers: ABA routing 021000021 · SWIFT CHASUS33 · account 726680858. Please email us when you send a transfer, so we can thank you and send a receipt.
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Larger and multi-year gifts
For gifts above the online maximum, pledges over several years, or gifts of securities, write to us and a person will reply.
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Monthly giving
A monthly gift gives the Institute's facilitators a predictable base to plan cohorts around. Choose Monthly in the form above; you can stop at any time.
Write to info@indaba-foundation.org and a person will reply.
Before you give
What you should know.
Who receives your gift
Gifts are made to the Indaba Foundation in US dollars.
Legal name on record: The Indaba Foundation, New York
How payment works
Payments are processed by Stripe Checkout on Stripe's own secure pages. We receive a confirmation and your receipt details; we never see or store your card number. Monthly gifts are Stripe subscriptions you can cancel at any time.
Receipts and tax documentation
Stripe emails a receipt for every payment. For a year-end statement or any question about tax documentation, please contact us.
The Indaba Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. U.S. Federal Tax ID #47-1713004.
How we report
Your designation is recorded with your gift so the Foundation can report to you on it. Programme results are published with their sources and their limits, including when a figure is a snapshot rather than a measure of change.