Ways to build with us · Support
Put your support where it holds.
Choose the part of the work you want to carry: training a woman who runs an early childhood centre, the mentoring that makes new practice last, the facilitators who train the next cohort, or the evidence that keeps us honest.
Why your support matters
Training one woman changes the room she runs, and every child who passes through it for years to come.
Your support is how that preparation happens, and how it lasts.
Four priorities
What your support funds.
Training practitioners
Seven Montessori-rooted modules, one week a month, for women who stay in their jobs throughout.
Fund training
Mentoring that holds
Facilitator visits during the programme and for at least five months after it, until new practice holds.
Fund mentoring
Growing facilitators
A one-year Facilitator-in-Training pathway, so graduates can become the people who train the next cohort.
Fund the pathway
Evidence
Independent ELOM assessment, and the move from a single snapshot to studies that follow the same children over time.
Fund the evidence
Give monthly
Steady support for work that takes years.
A practitioner's journey runs for seven months of training and months of mentoring after it. Monthly gifts let the Foundation plan for that whole journey, not just its first week.
Gifts are made in US dollars, one-time or monthly, through a secure checkout.
Beyond money
Support in kind.
The first CoRE programmes in South Africa were possible because Stellenbosch Municipality provided transport, catering and venues.
Venues
A room where a cohort can train for a week each month.
Transport and catering
So that a practitioner's training day costs her nothing.
Materials
Practitioners make much of their material by hand; good tools, paper and wood go a long way.
Skills
Research, design, finance or law, offered to the team or to the evidence work.
Why it works
What a prepared adult makes possible.
500+
women early childhood teachers trained so far
As of October 2026
500+
early childhood centres supported so far
As of October 2026
85,000
children those teachers will teach over their careers
Projected over their careers
Ambition5
active CoRE Facilitators, June 2026
As of June 2026
Over their careers, the 500+ teachers trained so far will each teach about 170 children. That is some 85,000 children who get an exceptional early education, where too many get an unacceptable one. The 85,000 is a model (500 teachers × about 170 children each), not a count. Teachers and centres: Indaba figures, October 2026.
Questions
Good to know.
Can I choose what my gift funds?
Yes. Choose training, mentoring, facilitators or evidence, or leave it to where it is needed most.
Can I give monthly?
Yes. Gifts are made in US dollars, one-time or monthly, through a secure checkout.
Can my company support the work?
Yes: through funding, gifts in kind such as venues, transport or materials, or skills. Write to us to shape it.
Larger and in-kind support
Let us shape it together.
For a cohort, a facilitator, the evidence work, a gift in kind or a gift by check, write to the Foundation.