Unlocking Potential.
Building Brighter Futures.
Empowering children and families in rural Mpumalanga through Early Childhood Development, nutrition, health, and community support.
What We Do
Early Learning
Nutritional Support
Parental Skills
Health Screenings
Psycho-Social Support
In 2025, we expanded our livelihood focus through the Tshala Impumelelo Livelihood Restoration Programme delivering structured agricultural training and providing starter packs including seeds, netting, and essential tools. This initiative empowers participants to establish productive gardens that strengthen both household nutrition and income potential.
Over 5,000 school beneficiaries through school gardens More than 150 household gardens Up to 40+ communal gardens Approximately 2,000 ECD beneficiaries linked to nutrition initiatives.
We provide seeds, tools, and technical support to ensure sustainability. In partnership with Rise Against Hunger, we distribute nutritious meal packs to vulnerable households, ensuring immediate food relief while long-term food production systems are strengthened.
Annually, our services reach:
Over 2,500 children through developmental screenings, growth monitoring, hearing and vision checks More than 300 women through Pap smears and women’s health screenings Hundreds of community members through essential non-prescription medication via the Topsy Pharmacy Over 300 individuals through diagnostic services.
These services reduce travel burdens, promote early detection, and significantly improve health outcomes for vulnerable families.
We assist families with birth registrations, identity documents, and access to social grants, ensuring that vulnerable households can access essential services and exercise their rights.
Who We Are
The Topsy Foundation is a Non-profit Organisation serving rural communities in Mpumalanga’s Gert Sibande District. For over two decades, Topsy has worked alongside vulnerable communities to address systemic challenges including poverty, food insecurity, limited access to healthcare, unemployment, and inadequate early childhood development support.
Our model is community-based, integrated, and prevention-focused. Rather than addressing challenges in isolation, we deliver coordinated programmes across early learning, healthcare, food security, skills development, and psychosocial support. This holistic approach ensures that children thrive in their formative years while communities build resilience, dignity, and sustainable livelihoods.
Each year, our interventions reach thousands of beneficiaries across Dipaleseng, Grootvlei, Siyathemba, Nthorane, Embalenhle, and surrounding communities.
Make a difference
With the support of our donors, we work to break the cycle of poverty in Mpumalanga’s poorest rural communities. We do this by empowering and supporting parents and caregivers, and capacitating Early Childhood Development practitioners to raise happy, healthy and capable children. 100% of your contribution provides support to a child in need during the crucial early years of their development.
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Our Impact
The Topsy Foundation delivers six integrated pillars of support that collectively strengthen individuals, families, and communities. Our work combines immediate relief with long-term development solutions. Early Learning and Stimulation, Skills Development and Training, Nutritional Support and Food Security, Primary Health Care, Psycho-social Support and Parental Capacity Building, and Social Support and Basic Needs Assistance