Welcome to TREE ECD – Training Resources for
Early Education

TREE, Established in 1984, a non-profit, Early Childhood Development (ECD) Resource and Training Organisation, has worked towards a vision of assisting adults (mostly women) from disadvantaged communities, to provide their young children with access to qualified ECD programs, that promote the child’s holistic development, support, health and welfare.

TREE believes that all children should have access to quality, sustainable early childhood development so that they can develop to their full educational and personal potential.

Vision

TREE’s Vision is a nation that values and affirms young children and gives them the opportunities to develop to their full potential, in line with their developmental rights and needs.

Our Mission

TREE’s mission is to promote and support quality, sustainable, holistic ECD for children from birth to age 7, in marginalised communities, by providing access to quality training in ECD for Adults, who impact on the lives of young children, and access to a range of resources for ECD.

TREE achieves this through:

• Formal, in-service, participatory ECD Core and Elective training courses at NQF (National Qualifications Framework) Level 1, 4 and 5 accredited by SAQA (South African Qualification Authority) through the ETDP SETA (Education, Training & Development Practices, Sector Education & Training Authority).
  These courses are run throughout KwaZulu-Natal and adjacent Eastern Cape.
• Support, monitoring and assessment visits to practitioners (pre-school teachers) in their ECD sites (pre-school/crèche) on a regular basis.
• Short courses and workshops on a range of ECD topics that will improve services to young children.
• Working in communities with parents, caregivers, community members and organizations that impact on the lives of young children.
• Producing and selling toys, educational equipment and printed resource materials to sustain TREE’s programmes.
• Teaching and assisting people to develop skills to make educational equipment from waste and other materials.
• Indirectly providing opportunities and linkages for women’s empowerment, income generation and community development.
• Networking, partnerships and cooperation with government departments at local, provincial and national levels, as well as other stakeholders, on all issues that affect young children.
• Advocating for the rights of young children in all possible forums.