South Africa is a country with one of the highest
rates of child abuse and neglect and a
high rate of single parent households. Children from such
households and disadvantaged/ poor households do not always receive exposure to
high-end educational and technical programmes such as Robotics which offers valuable
rewards for young children. Robotics and programming equipment are not cheap
and accessibility is thus difficult. The benefits of Robotics and programming is
two-fold: it assist learners to turn their frustration into innovation and also
teach early engineering skills. A field that needs much development in South
Africa. My aim with this project is to start a robotics centre that will be
open to children from specifically single-parented and poor households.
Grahamstown, za