Leratong Pre-school | As with all the Gumboots projects, it is difficult to visit Leratong at the moment, but talking to Dimakatso, the senior teacher, she speaks positively about the learners and the school in general … “The children seem to be coping emotionally, although a few are struggling physically as their clothes are very inadequate for these cold winter mornings.” She said that she isn’t able to interact with the parents these days as they just drop and collect their children at the gate. But she senses that families are not suffering too much with Covid illness per se, but it’s the crippling financial impact that’s affecting them through loss of jobs and family income.