Thanks to some super-generous toy donations, 5,000 kids are about to dive headfirst into a world of colorful, creative, and seriously fun play.
South Africa (28 February 2025) – You learn the most when you’re intrigued and having fun! Well, this is at least true when it comes to play-based learning which greatly helps children develop skills in many areas, including social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development.
This theory is at the heart of Cotlands’ Early Childhood Development centres and library hubs where play is the foundation of learning.
And things are about to get even more exciting thanks to a generous donation of 200 play boxes from the Clinton Health Access Initiative, a global health organisation committed to saving lives, and the LEGO Foundation. This contribution promises to ignite play-based early learning opportunities for 5,000 children, helping them reach their full potential!
These play boxes, each with construction-style building blocks, will be distributed across Cotlands’ eight Toy Library hubs nationwide, ensuring that more children have access to quality educational play that builds creativity, problem-solving, and essential life skills.
According to Cotlands, these colourful construction blocks help improve fine motor skills, encourage experimentation and learning through trial and error, spark creativity, help with shape recognition and promote cooperation and communication.
Kids will be stacking towers, balancing bridges, and learning to share and communicate, all while thinking they’re just having a blast!
“Through our partnerships, we are shaping a brighter future – one brick at a time,” Cotlands excitedly shared.
Sources: Cotlands
Don’t ever miss the Good Things. Download the Good Things Guy App now on Apple or Google.
Do you have something to add to this story? Please share it in the comments or follow GoodThingsGuy on Facebook & Twitter to keep up to date with good news as it happens, or share your good news with us by clicking here or click the link below to listen to the Good Things Guy Podcast with Brent Lindeque – South Africa’s very own Good Things Guy. He’s on a mission to change what the world pays attention to, and he truly believes there’s good news around us. In the Good Things Guy podcast, you’ll meet these everyday heroes & hear their incredible stories:
Or watch an episode of Good Things TV below, a show created to offer South Africans balance in a world with what feels like constant bad news. We’re here to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in South Africa & we’ll leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.
Related Story
by 