She Had Three Rolls in Her Kitchen. And Eight Kids to Feed and Teach | EP 14
This is Zanele. She runs an afternoon class in the Eastern Cape for grade four, five, and six learners who can't read English.
She takes them back to the foundations, teaches them phonics, creates a safe space for learning, and shares whatever food she has with the kids who show up.
What started as teaching children from her community to read has grown into something she built herself - Imbewu, The Seed. Her own crèche and afternoon learning space. The name says everything about who she is.
At TomorrowToday we're part of the 1% for the Planet initiative, a structural commitment to put aside 1% of our sales revenue towards causes that make a real difference. For us, it's not a CSR checkbox.
It's about linking what we believe in to what we actually do. We think about business as a force for good, and that means supporting people who are educating the future leaders of our world.
Through the Kariega Foundation, a fellow 1% for the Planet member, we get to support people like Zanele. The Foundation takes a whole system approach - eco-tourism, food, entrepreneurship, education, because they understand that real community change only happens when everything works together.
Zanele is at the heart of that. Passionate, self-taught, qualified in social-emotional learning, and showing up every single day for those kids. This is what doing business for good actually looks like.
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