IMBE is a solution-based and community-oriented partner for microenterprises, helping them to source secure funding and to establish and grow towards their unique long-term vision. We have a direct focus on women-run enterprises and early childhood development in South Africa and are fully committed to the success of every entrepreneur and the future potential of every child.
IMBE supports an ECD sector comprised of sustainable, financially resilient microenterprises that provide an income for women entrepreneurs and a valuable service for parents and children.
it provides income-generation opportunities for enterprising women
unlocks the labour potential of parents and caregivers
improves child outcomes
KICKSTART
Seed funding to support ECD entrepreneurs through their start-up phase.
GROW
Investments focused on accelerating existing ECD enterprises.
INNOVATE
Identifying and testing new products, investments and services that will add value to an ECD entrepreneur’s financial resilience and sustainability.
Successful women-owned businesses deliver quality ECD
South Africa is closer to their universal quality access goals for ECD
Investors achieve measurable impact goals
Women are integral to the delivery of ECD.
In order to reach more children - especially those children not currently accessing any form of quality ECD - South Africa needs more women in every corner of the country owning and running successful ECD enterprises. IMBE works together with ECD ecosystem partners to provide the right package to both kickstart ECD businesses as well as stabilise existing ECD businesses.
Success Story
Where I live in Orange Farm, poverty is a very real issue. When you look down the street, you can see young children scattered around, uncared for. I love children, so I thought, “Let me gather them and their mothers and start a daycare”. Fortunately I had already… Read more
Success Story
“Opening Little Flowers Daycare was more about making a difference to my community than about creating a business for myself. I live in Vlakfontein, a township south of Soweto, and I felt helpless looking around and seeing the young, vulnerable children of young… Read more
have been kickstarted with seed funding
made in ECD enterprises to assist
with growth and stability
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