Reports
The Children of Light Educare is a project of the Children Of Light Educare Trust and is a Non-Profit Organisation (Reg No: 149-100 NPO). It is guided by a Board of Trustees, and the Educare Principal leads the Educare Management team.
2023 Budget
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Managing Trustee Report for Children of Light Educare Trust - AGM
Date: 24 June 2022 via ZOOM (Virtual)
An Educare is defined as a centre that integrates education, health and welfare for preschool children. Early Childhood Learning (ECD), in terms of the Children’s Act, No 38 of 2005 specifies the provision of emotional, sensory, spiritual, moral, physical, social and the development of communication for children up to 6 years old. While our programme fully aligns with these government policies, our approach goes a step further in that it is holistic in nature and child-centred. In addition, the Children of Light Educare (COLT) has, at the heart of its foundations, the principles of Yoga as passed down via the Sivananda lineage.
To deliver an all-round quality education of this nature rules out working with a large number of children. Our approach instead is to work with a few children and their families in a more intimate, supportive, loving and co-operative manner.
2022 Budget
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Managing Trustee Report for Children of Light Educare Trust - AGM
Date: 25 June 2021 via ZOOM (Virtual)
Donors and friends often ask if it is worth doing all this work for just 19 children. For us, our reach touches more than 19 children.
When we educate a child, this has an impact on the entire family which extends to the surrounding community with an awakening, bringing about hope, self-respect and co-operation. The value of nurturing the seeds embedded within the children now, will or will not flower in their later teenage or adult years and it is our hope that this will enable them to make better choices in life, become good friends, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and citizens of our country.
It is for this reason, regardless of the immense effort and resources, that we focus on providing quality education that reaches the child as a whole, albeit in small numbers.
Managing Trustee Report for Ananda Kutir Education Trust - AGM
Date: 14 August 2020 via ZOOM (Virtual)
Ananda Kutir Education Trust was formed in 2014 with the vision of Integral Education that nurtures the innate divinity and potential of children.
The beneficiaries are children from underprivileged communities. The initial goal was to establish a school where we could support a child through the developmental phases from Grade R till matric.
Over time, due to limited resources and the required capacity in overcoming vast legislative requirements, the Trustees of Ananda Kutir Education Trust resolved in 2019, that the Trust should steer its human and financial resources into establishing an Educare. An Educare focuses on providing health, social, mental, emotional and spiritual support to children from birth to 6 years.