by Team Fundza | Feb 26, 2018 | Our News
We’re delighted to welcome two new volunteers from the University of Kentucky who will be with us until June… let’s introduce the fabulous Annie and Kate! **** Tell us a little about yourself? ANNIE: My name is Annie Martyn and I am 20 years old. I...
by Nadeema Musthan | Nov 8, 2017 | Our News
In October we said goodbye to Yoshiaki Nagasawa, who joined us from Hokkiado, Japan, for a five-month volunteer internship. I first met Yoshi in Cairo at eLearning Africa in May 2016. He’d come to hear my talk on FunDza that focused on the lessons we’d...
by Nadeema Musthan | Aug 23, 2017 | Our News
In late 2015 FunDza had the idea to use a small raspberry pi device in order to disseminate FunDza’s short stories in places and spaces and to people for whom connectivity was difficult or problematic. We know – from the feedback from readers – that...
by Team Fundza | Jul 26, 2017 | Our News
Dylan: Four months ago, I was sitting in the office of my South African history professor in the States, reading the names of the books on his shelf, waiting for him to arrive for my interview. I was applying for a program to work and study in Cape Town for two months...
by Team Fundza | May 22, 2017 | Our News
We had the pleasure of hosting Nontando Mpinda as a job shadower in the March/April school holidays. Initially shy, we soon found that Nontando was a delight. She was keen to share her intimate knowledge of what it’s like to be a teen in Khayelitsha and she held...
by Team Fundza | May 3, 2017 | Our News
Aimee-Claire left us at the end of April to head back to Pretoria. We are certainly missing her sunny disposition and ready smile. Full of giggles and wisdom, we thank her for her time and dedication to FunDza. She parts FunDza with this heart-felt post. Thank you,...
by Team Fundza | Jan 19, 2017 | Our News
We were lucky enough to have Trinity join us in the trenches for a short stint! This is her experience with us: “I first found out about FunDza through my gran. Some time back, I was wanting to job shadow someone for 3 days for a school project that we had to...
by Team Fundza | Jun 7, 2016 | Our News
Usually they say young people are lazy and they don’t want to work, that they sit around on their phones all day and chat to their friends. This may be true for some but not for all. Trinity Munro is one of the exceptions. Trinity is a grade 10 learner from the...
by Team Fundza | Jun 7, 2016 | Our News |
FunDza had the opportunity to participate once again in Cell C’s Take a Girl Child to Work Day. It was a great success last year, so naturally we decided to repeat the exercise. We invited learners from one of our beneficiary schools, Matthew Goniwe Memorial High, to...
by Team Fundza | Oct 26, 2015 | Our News
In Thomas Wolf’s book, Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century, he says that the single most important defining characteristic of any non-profit organisation is the people who work within it. Paid. Unpaid. Staff. Volunteers. Because of...
