Ilifa Labantwana Unclaimed

Ilifa Labantwana, a national ECD programme, was founded in 2009 and is an initiative of three donor partners who are all committed to making a significant difference to the ECD sector in South Africa

Despite evidence supporting that babies should be read to from day one, data collected during the General Household Survey 2016 shows that half of children under 2 are never read to. The good news is that the regularity of being read to does increase as children get older – but not by enough. A third of South African children under 5 don’t get read to at all.