This Christmas, 12,000 Children Need More Than Gifts – They Need to Be Ready for Grade 1
Good Things Guy | 09.12.2025 21:30South Africa (09 December 2025) – While families across South Africa prepare for the festive season and back-to-school shopping, thousands of preschool children face a heartbreaking reality: they’ll walk into Grade 1 classrooms in just six weeks, but they won’t be ready. Not because they lack potential, but because chronic malnutrition has robbed them of the cognitive development, physical strength, and concentration needed to learn.
