Community Development

The Elgin Learning Foundation (ELF), parent organization of the Elgin Community College (ECC), has over the past 21 years, evolved from small organisation employing 8 staff members in 1996 to an organisation with a footprint in a number of communities on a national scale.

Over the past twenty one years, the organisation has gained experience in all facets of community development and has grown to offer unique and innovative models for integrated, sustained community development in South Africa.

In collaboration with various government departments such as the Departments of Health, Education and Social Development ELF serves developing communities in the following ways:

• Safety Parents programmes
• Early Childhood Development capacity building for Practitioners as well as mental and nutritional stimulation for ECD Learners
• Management of a mobile library and resource centre service to promote a culture of reading and literacy as well as support Outcomes Based Education in rural schools
• Environmental management and conservation programmes

Now in its 21st year, the Elgin Learning Foundation (ELF) finds itself in the rewarding position of having made significant development interventions in the lives of thousands of people living in the Overberg Region and elsewhere in the country. As a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization ELF's programmes and services are all inclusive.

Some highlights of the ELF Projects and Programmes:

• ELF is the proud recipient for the 2013 Lotto Award for Corporate Governance.
• For the past 10 years ELF has been awarded the contract to train Ancillary health care for the Department of Health. Thus far we have graduated in excess of 20 000 students who have been placed in employment with the Department of Health.
• Presently, ELF is the only institution in South Africa with a NQF 5 Plant Production AgriSETA qualification.