Asidlale Boxes

Siggi van Niekerk

Siggi and her mother Edna run the Ziggy's Kidz at the Moolman Church Sunday School, attended regularly by about 60 kids (who get a meal every Sunday after the service).

Thobile runs a little daycare center on weekday afternoons (from her garage in eThandakhukhanya). The children come to play and Thobile is very much a 'mother' figure to these young children.

Fikile Manana

Fikile is based in Amsterdam, and has been working with the Asidlale Project for about seven years. She helps to train creche teachers and mothers/grandmothers who have young children to use the Asidlale Box as a play tool for their children.

Thobile Ngwenya

The Asidlale ('Let's Play') Box

The ‘ASIDALE BOX’ is an activity box - a fun play tool to help children develop skills and creativity, gross & fine motor skills and 'hand to eye coordination', while learning in the process.

A simple concept: Fill an APPLE BOX full of educational games and activities that a mother/grandmother or creche teacher can use for an hour or two daily, to encourage their children to 'play and learn'. Weekdays run off a Daily Activity Sheet outlining Songs, Prayers, Games and Activities that make the play even more fun - and everything is in a box which is easy to transport, carry and use.

Where are we working:

Siggi's Sunday School Moolman - about 60 children attending every Sunday

Thobile's Daycare Center in eThandakhukhanya - about 20 children attending

Fikile Manana - Rural training in the Amsterdam area

Granny ('Gogo') can play: children are often being cared for by their grandparents - this is typical of many rural family structures. The Asidlale Box is simple and very easy to use, designed to make it fun for a Mom or Granny to play with small children.