The Operations team is responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring the SmartStart programme.
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Naresh Totaram
Administration (Offices) Manager
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Virginia Hlungwane
Housekeeper
What attracted me to SmartStart is the innovation and passion for working with community.
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Mapaseka Diale
Training Operations Manager
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Thingazwa Bera
Operations Analyst
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Momo Matebesi
Operations Assistance
Efficiency is my everyday prerogative as I make sure that everything goes where it needs to be, I also hold the title for the warmest smile in SmartStart.
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Azola Fali
Operations Lead
What attracted me to SmartStart is the opportunity to play a part, however small, in positively shaping the future trajectory of South Africa’s most vulnerable children
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Thlologelo Relela
Programmes Operations Manager
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Keneilwe Mosime
QA Intern
Because it is the key to open the door to a better life for them and their willingness to learn and act on it as well to achieve their dreams and goals.
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Thoko Nkata
Receptionist & Office Coordinator
Since SmartStart helps empower people of disadvantaged Communities through early childhood development learning and that is something that has always been something that I am passionate about. The betterment of a community through education.
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Matimba Maringa
Training Administrator
Because “What children learn in their first few years of life and how they learn it, can have a great effects on their success and future as children and when adults”
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Nontokozo Zulu
Procurement & Supply Chain Officer
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Melody Muturiki
Travel Coordinator
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