Grow ECD

South Africa roots
Source review: 2026-10-05

Your guide to Grow ECD

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Reported work and places

Children and youth; Education; Livelihoods; Women’s health and support. Reported activity: South Africa.

The 2025/26 annual report describes completed preschool-owner training, teacher support, educational resources and ongoing early-learning programmes in South Africa. A May 2026 update separately describes breakfast provision at Eastern Cape centres. Targets for new provinces are excluded.

Evidence dated 2026-03-31. End of the annual 2025/26 reporting period; financial-year end is stated on PDF physical p23. Not August upload date or an individual delivery date.

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Who receives your money

Organization roots: South Africa
Roots and operating base: South African early-learning social enterprise established in 2014; works with under-resourced women-led preschool businesses.
Reviewed legal entity: GW Foundation NPC (trading as Grow ECD) · South Africa
Named recipient: Grow ECD (GW Foundation NPC) · South Africa
Giving route: Direct official South African EFT route

Use the official EFT section naming Grow ECD. It also offers BackaBuddy and Kindlink routes, whose legal recipients were not separately reviewed here. General giving does not guarantee a selected centre or breakfast allocation.

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Country evidence and reporting periods

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South Africa

Preschool-owner training was completed and centres delivered the early-learning programme with teacher training, mentoring and educational tools.

Reporting period: 2025/26 annual period ending March 2026 · Physical PDF pp4,10–11, printed pp2,8–9; year end p23

Evidence stage: Reported services delivered

Self-reported training and programme figures. Attendance can count repeated sessions; centre enrolments are not unique children independently counted by AWG.

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What we checked, and what remains uncertain

Minimum public-source checks passed on 2026-10-05: named identity, official presence, recent reported activity and an authorized giving route with an identifiable recipient.

Minimum public-source checks only. Registration and programme results may be organization-authored. Live registry standing, bank ownership, payment settlement, use of an individual gift and field outcomes were not independently audited. No payment made. Evidence describes its stated reporting period, not guaranteed delivery today. Annual reports use a 365-day reporting-period window.

Official overview names GW Foundation NPC, NPO 161-786 and PBO 930048936. Current giving page identifies Grow ECD as the EFT beneficiary.

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