About Authentic Roots

At Authentic Roots, we believe a sustainable future begins in early childhood. We work with NPO’s and their supported ECD centres across South Africa to weave environmental education into everyday learning, nurturing teachers, inspiring children, and growing environmentally conscious communities.
 

Our vision is to integrate environmental education into every Early Childhood Development (ECD) centre in South Africa, cultivating a generation of environmentally aware children who value education, sustainability, and community well-being.
 

Our programme enhance overall teaching quality by empowering teachers through capacity building, giving them the skills, confidence, and creativity to teach with purpose. Children, in turn, develop a wide range of foundational skills, as well as essential life-long skills, curiosity, problem-solving, teamwork, and responsibility, while learning to care for the natural world.
 

From creative nature-based classroom activities and planting seeds to storytelling and recycling, our hands-on approach makes sustainability real, joyful, and lasting. Together with NPOs, and partners who share our values, we are growing a generation that learns to live more consciously on the earth.
 

Through initiatives like our Environmental Education Programme and Read and Plant Project, we help teachers and children explore environmental literacy, grow their own food, and practice sustainability in fun, meaningful ways that strengthen both learning and life skills.