Annual reports
Our annual reports provide an account of our progress, partnerships and impact. They ensure financial transparency and share reflections from our leadership. We invite you to explore these reports to see how your support helps drive meaningful change in early childhood literacy programs and early childhood education in South Africa, year after year.
2025
Celebrating 20 years of changing lives through literacy
We are pleased to share our 2025 Annual Report: This report reflects not only on the milestones we have reached, but also on the people, partnerships, and collective efforts that have made our journey possible. It highlights our work over the past year, the impact of our programmes, stories from the field, and our continued commitment to ensuring that all children have opportunities to develop the language and literacy skills they need to thrive.
As we celebrate this milestone, we remain focused on the future and the work still needed to support all adults working with children.
2024
Extending our footprint
During 2024, we began working towards our 2030 strategic goals, streamlining our early literacy offerings, while driving our growth strategy. We extended our footprint through projects in the North West, Northern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces.
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2023
A year of growth
Wordworks experienced significant growth this year. Drawing on evaluation findings, and with guidance from an active board, we launched a 2030 strategic plan to strengthen our impact in early childhood education in South Africa.
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2022
Rebuilding through resilience
Our innovative story-based classroom programs for Grade RR and R were widely used, supporting the development of language skills in early childhood. The rollout across Gauteng was cited by the Reading Panel for its contribution to early literacy development.
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2021
Adapting to COVID-19
Our ECD partners faced immense challenges during the Covid-19 crisis. We were honoured to receive recognition from UNESCO for our innovative programming which helped ensure that early childhood literacy programs continued to reach children in need.
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