Respected businessman, Mr Patilizwe ‘Pat’ Mdoda and sponsors came together and built a new Childhood Development Centre at Ncembu, KuTsolo village in the Eastern Cape where he grew up and attended his first grade in a hut.
This project began when Mr Mdoda and the Mdoda family responded to the President Special Project of Early Childhood Education. The school has an administration building with a library, a sick bay, a computer lab, and a secure room for valuable school supplies. It also has a classroom building with two classrooms that can each hold up to 30 learners and a storage room, a services building with a kitchen and storeroom, four children’s restrooms and one adult restroom and an additional overflow classroom that can hold 15 learners.
“The facility is ready to use with furniture, equipment and appliances already installed. The Mdoda family is committed to ensuring that the facility provides top class children stimulation and tuition and has committed to fund the training of two educators in the modern methods of educating this foundation education at LEGO.” commented Mr Pat Mdoda.
“This is an important task and we as Ncembu Primary School are extremely grateful for the opportunity that Mr Pat Mdoda and sponsors gave our school, having to watch building this incredible Childhood Development Center for our learners was very priceless,” Principal Bongani Combi said with gratitude.
To honor Nelson Mandela Day, the new Childhood Development Center will be formally inaugurated on 18th July 2023. A handover ceremony will be held at Ncembu Village to commemorate this day, and distinguished dignitaries and members of the community will attend.