Mpumalanga Woman Uses Temu to Transform Her Mother's Underfunded Rural Crèche
● A 43-year-old from rural Mpumalanga, Mashadi Aphane, and her mom are educating young ones in their community
● The analytical chemist shared the solution she found on the e-commerce platform Temu, which made education accessible in a remote area in South Africa.
Mashadi Aphane teamed up with her mother to promote literacy in their rural Mpumalanga village. Both mother and daughter worked to overcome challenges and find innovative solutions to provide quality education to the children in their remote village.

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Mashadi’s mother, who raised five daughters alone after losing her husband in 2006, was driven by her personal experience to dedicate her life to early childhood development. After a career working at a daycare in Pretoria, she retired and opened a free crèche in her village, running it out of her garage.
Woman's mom runs free Mpumalanga crèche
Without government funding or sponsorships, resources were scarce, forcing Mashadi and her mother to find creative ways to provide essential educational materials. The community couldn't afford to pay a full fee, so Mashadi's mother only asked parents to contribute to the children's breakfast and lunch. The few educational materials they had were hand-me-downs, unsuitable for the young learners.

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Mashadi turned to Temu to find affordable educational resources, discovering interactive learning tools that filled the gap in her mother's crèche. While scrolling through Temu, she found the interactive resources they needed.
"I started buying learning materials from Temu, believing they would help the kids' development, and I must say they are not as expensive," she wrote in a community group post and received a R1000 Temu voucher for sharing her experience.
Mpumalanga rural kids learn with Temu supplies
With the coupon, she was able to purchase more educational supplies, including posters in English on topics like body parts and seasons, as well as "Magic Groove" reusable writing books, which come in a pack of four and are reusable.
"It teaches the kids to write, it's pre-populated and guides the child on writing. The pack has the alphabet, numbers, maths and drawing books, and like the name, it's magic. "

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Mashadi believes that the futures of the children in her community should not be limited by their rural upbringing. She hoped that in future, she would get access to gadgets for the children. "I want to introduce them to technology as soon as possible," she stated. "Where they come from should not determine their future."
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