The Domino Effect Blog

It’s a full baby home

Precious Thabete our Crisis Parent shared these insights and updates on what has been taking place in the transition home over the first few months of 2020. “We are so…

Active learning in Foundation Phase

Zanele Nzimakwe is the Team Leader for this Enterprise and Educational programme. Our partnership is with ECD Owners who are our beneficiaries, to enable them to stimulate and enhance child…

All children must read

Exciting times for educators and learners at Ekuthuleni Primary School as we had established the Step 1 and 2 of the Neema Literacy Programme in Term 3 and 4 of…

Give Youth Life Skills

“A shift to fewer schools but going deeper with more grades!” says Leigh-Ann Stevens, who is also the Life Skills Team Leader A decision was made at the end of…

Skills Development post school

It’s an incredible privilege to partner with donors, who bring hope in the form of Skills Development to be able to offer ten young people the opportunity to pursue their…

Food for good thoughts

Goal – To feed the hungry children in our peri-urban schools, churches and crèches and supplement nutritional well being of learners where the government are not feeding vulnerable children. This…

Hope in the face of disaster

The Disaster Response Team is intentional about being prepared to respond to a disaster at any time, collecting non-perishable food items, blankets, tarpaulins, toiletries and basic essentials all the time.…

Red Light on abuse. STOP!

Our Anti Human Trafficking goal is to help those that are abused to see themselves with new eyes, God’s redemptive eyes, restored and released in wholeness! From January – March…

Office ready, so staff can feel safe!

Staff peace and health matters first and foremost

#LockdownLove Mask Campaign

Today is #Day50 of lockdown in South Africa, so we thought it would be apt to launch our Shwe Shwe Mask #EachOneReachOne Campaign. The intention is to kick start this…

Q&A – How can you help in the COVID-19 crisis?

COVID-19 Response Strategy

As we come to terms with the COVID-19 outbreak in our country and the need for businesses to rapidly respond to this shift, we cannot ignore the risk that this…

COVID-19 In response to our Staff

STAFF/TEAM: As a large proportion of our staff live within the communities that we serve, a number of our staff are at risk of infections as well. While we as…

COVID-19 Response to our Partners

PARTNERS: Donors | Volunteers Financial and Non-Financial Donors: We will increase our communication with donors and continue to serve their needs for documentation, paperwork, reports and feedback, remotely. To reduce…

COVID-19 Response to our Beneficiaries

BENEFICIARIES: Heeding the call of our government, our immediate goal is to ensure that the delivery of our interventions do not require our beneficiaries to put themselves at risk of…

COVID-19 Response from our CEO

18 March 2020 THE DOMINO FOUNDATION – COVID-19 RESPONSE “We are all members of the great human family, created in the image of God” Genesis 1:17 The Coronavirus has arrived…

The National Development Plan (NDP)

2020 is ushering in more than two decades worth of national democracy since South Africa’s elections in 1994 and like every other 26 year old adult, we’ve ditched our childhood…

17 Goals to change the world!

In 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), also known as the Global Goals, were intended to be adopted by the world (OK, just the UN Member States and rolled out…

MANDELA DAY ’19: ON-SITE CHALLENGE – LEARN TO READ

          What’s the 4-1-1 on the LEARN TO READ Challenge: CHALLENGE DETAILS: CONTEXT: With low literacy rates plaguing our education system, resulting in South African students…

MANDELA DAY ’19: OFF-SITE CHALLENGE – RELIEF AID HAMPERS

          What’s the 4-1-1 on the RELIEF AID HAMPER Challenge: CHALLENGE DETAILS: CONTEXT: The Domino Foundation works with a number of families and households that live…