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Family and Community Involvement


The Masithethe Series





                First Steps Help Your Baby Learn

Help Your Baby Learn

During the first 2½ years of life, your baby is growing and learning news things every day. This book looks at how you can help your baby develop his or her full potential and make the most of the learning opportunities in your home environment.

ISBN: no ISBN
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R50

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                Lindiwe's Story

Lindiwe's Story

Lindiwe's story explores the links in the chain around the child with severe diarrhoea.

ISBN: no ISBN
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R50

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                You Are the Child's First Teacher

You Are the Child's First Teacher

You are the child's first teacher looks at ways in which adults pass on messages to children about the world around them.

ISBN:978-0-620-12605-2
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R50

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                Food for Life

Food for Life

Food for life looks at some basic issues around child nutrition, breast feeding, hygiene and small frequent feedings once the child is weaned.

ISBN: no ISBN
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R50

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                My Family and Aids

My Family and HIV/Aids

My Family & HIV/Aids 1 in 4 South Africans are HIV positive. This means that HIV/AIDS touches all our lives and we need to start working together to find positive ways of living with HIV/AIDS. This book shows how HIV/AIDS changes the lives of the Dlamini family.

ISBN: no ISBN
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R50

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                Meeting Children's Needs

Meeting Children's Needs

This book looks at what children need to develop their full potential and how we can work together to meet children's needs and build a human rights culture where every man, woman and child is treated with dignity and respect.

ISBN:978-1-875069-51-4/52-1/53-8
Age: Adult
Language: English, Afrikaans & Xhosa
List Price: R50

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                Let's Protect Our Children

Let's Protect Our Children

Child abuse is a problem that touches the lives of all South Africans. This book will help you learn more about child abuse andhow we can protect the children in our communities.

ISBN:978-1-875069-47-7/48-4/49-1
Age: Adult
Language: English, Afrikaans & Xhosa
List Price: R50

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Resource Books


                Getting Started as a Community Preschool Motivator (CPM)

Getting Started as a Community Preschool Motivator (CPM)

Only half a million of an estimated six million children under the age of 5 in South Africa receive any kind of organised childhood development services. This guide presents elements of strategy for CPMs to reach out to more children and their families.

CPMs work closely with parents and child care systems that are already in place to identify the places where support is needed so that the child's right to basic early education, health, safety and nutrition is assured.

ISBN:978-0-9583137-9-7
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R15

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                Some Options for Community Educare Programmes

Some Options for Community Educare Programmes

This is an introduction to some programmes which may be less well known than a preschool, educare centre or crèche. The options described - parent playgroups, home visiting, childminding - do not require large amounts of money or registration to get started, but have many benefits for young children and their families.

ISBN: no ISBN
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R15

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                Upgrading Preschool Shelters

Upgrading Preschool Shelters

This publication has ideas for upgrading pre-school shelters using shipping containers. It looks at how to plan indoor and outdoor space and provides three different lay-out plans. It also suggests ways to recycle waste.

ISBN:978-0-9583137-7-3
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R10

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                The Story of Etafeni

The Story of Etafeni

This book describes the development of play groups run by mothers in an area of Nyanga, Cape Town, lacking in ECD services. In this book women talk about the project, Etafeni - a Xhosa word which means "on the open space" - and how it has changed their lives for the better. There are still many problems in the community but this story shows how people working together can overcome problems and how they can make some dreams come true.

ISBN:978-0-9583137-5-9
Age: Adult
Language: English
List Price: R15

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Copyright © The Early Learning Resource Unit™ 2009. All Rights Reserved.
A unit of the Cape Educational Trust. Section 18A. Accreditation Number: ETDP-581-PA-200602-F0028.
NPO-No 003-285 NPO. PBO Ref No: 930010806.