The ASAP board received photos from PEN’s preschool coaches to celebrate our fifth birthday on Valentine’s Day.

Boys and girls develop fine motor skills, imagination, and empathy while playing with ASAP-supplied dolls clothed in beautiful outfits made by volunteers from churches and retirement communities.

Owners and staff of preschools registered at ASAP’s first six Educational Toy Libraries were recently trained to “make math fun” for 4-6 year-olds.

Faculty and students from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Early Childhood Education are assessing the impact of the PEN/ASAP model. PEN’s staff of 23 coaches mentor daycare owners as they turn their settings into preschools.

This Valentine’s Day marks the fifth birthday of Adopt a South African Preschool (ASAP), a Yardley-based nonprofit which makes early childhood education accessible in disadvantaged South African communities.

Linda McGowan (right) and Evette Pettaway (left) are engaged in high finance at Executive Director Nancy Schongalla’s dining room table.

The preschool coaches and school owners were delighted by the first bunch of SOAPLAY bars which arrived February 22, 2024.

And we’re off…to interview for a first coach in Senekal, Free State…in our new PEN/ASAP car!

PEN’s preschool coaches are thrilled about 20 laptops donated by GEP, a global supply chain solution company based in New Jersey.

Here’s how ASAP transforms a donated double wide trailer into a resource center with beautiful murals on the outside, a stocked educational toy library and tables and chairs for weekly training sessions with preschool owners.

Here are a few books which provide context for ASAP's mission.

During my visit to ASAP-supported preschools in May, this little fellow was pointing to me with a curious smile.

The South African team has assembled the first 25 Play and Learn Resource Kits to share with preschool caregivers in the Pretoria area.

Adopt a South African Preschool funds toy libraries at training centers, so that disadvantaged children have the foundation to succeed in school and in life.

The South African team has assembled the first 25 Play and Learn Resource Kits to share with preschool caregivers in the Pretoria area.

The South African team has assembled the first 25 Play and Learn Resource Kits to share with preschool caregivers in the Pretoria area.

In 2008, Belinah was employed at a day care center in the inner city of Pretoria.

Honoring the legacy of former South African president Nelson Mandela, his July 18th birthday is an annual occasion to focus on the ability and responsibility we all have to change the world for the better!

There are about 50 creches or in-home daycares in a 6-mile radius of the Phenyo Preschool in Nellmapius where 20-30 children may sit in front of a T.V. all day in one or two-room apartments while their mothers work, look for work or beg.

The South African team has assembled the first 25 Play and Learn Resource Kits to share with preschool caregivers in the Pretoria area.