The Foundation for Community Work is a South African nonprofit bringing early childhood development to families across the Western Cape.
On CommCare, FCW guides, tracks, and proves early childhood development home visits, reaching 8,000 to 10,000 families across South Africa’s Western Cape with 263 home visitors.
Reaching families takes more than a visit
FCW believes parents and caregivers are children’s first educators. Its home visitors bring early childhood development to families that centers cannot reach, and paper reporting was holding the program back. They chose CommCare because:
- It reaches families outside the centers. Out-of-center home visiting brings the program to underserved communities.
- It replaces paper reporting. The old process lacked accountability and hid what was happening in the field.
- It guides every home visit. Mobile case management supports home visitors as they work.
- It proves the program works. Reports and referrals stand up to government and funder scrutiny.
families reached across the Western Cape. 263 home visitors now run their visits on CommCare, giving FCW real-time visibility into a service delivery process that used to live on paper.
Home visitors
Case management on a phone guides each visit and tracks every family’s progress through the Family in Focus program.
The monitoring and evaluation team
Dashboard visualizations replace paper reports, so problems get spotted and addressed promptly.
Government stakeholders
Detailed reports, referrals, and performance metrics that impressed social development department officials.
Families
Faster response times and better follow-through; many caregivers have become ECD advocates and home visitors themselves.
Now you can see what is happening. The work becomes more in-depth, more hands on. It’s quicker to respond when there is a problem.
See it from FCW
FCW delivers out-of-center early childhood development to families across the Western Cape.
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