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The Ford Motor Company Fund is awarding the first grants from the Booth Schoch Future Success Fund to budding entrepreneurs at the Ford Resource and Engagement Centre (FREC) in South Africa. The winners are all FREC program graduates who will share $10,000 in grants to advance their businesses. They have completed the Entrepreneurship Program to start in-home businesses or were in the Early Childhood Development training and certification program to establish After School Care Centres. Benna Deese, Manager, Global Development, Ford Fund: “We’re inspired by the drive and dedication shown b...

• The company is intent on assisitng budding entrepeneurs whose focus is on early childhood development.  • The FREC invests $100 000 annually in business and job training courses and has trained more than 300 people in accredited courses with no cost to participants.  The education system in South Africa has many critics. But the long and short of it is that children are not given equal access to education from a young age all the way to matric and this severely affects their lives after leaving school.  Early Childhood Development (EDC) is the most important function of providing y...