Do you want to make a difference to the lives of all children and youth, especially the disadvantaged and vulnerable?

Do you want to make a difference to the lives of all children and youth, especially the disadvantaged and vulnerable?

Since 1996, MIET AFRICA has contributed to the education, health, and safety of over 60 million children and youth across the SADC region. Every child deserves the chance to learn, be healthy, and feel safe, but many still face obstacles preventing them from realising these rights.

You can make a real difference! Donate to MIET AFRICA so that we can reach more children and youth. You can donate directly via our website or through GoGetFunding. No matter the size, your support can ensure that no child is left behind.

And sharing this message multiplies the impact.

Because every child deserves quality education, good health, safety, and the chance to dream.

We can provide 18A tax certificates for South African tax payers.

 

 

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Need Design, Content or Comms Support? Let’s Amplify Your Work Together!

Need Design, Content or Comms Support? Let’s Amplify Your Work Together!

MIET AFRICA has been driving meaningful change in health and education across the region for over 30 years. Alongside our programmes, we provide a range of high-quality services that partners and organisations trust.

Discover what we can do for you in the brochure below – and help us extend our reach by sharing this message with your networks.

Contact: Shéla McCullough | shela@miet.co.za

 

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Building Foundations for Lifelong Learning: MIET AFRICA’s First Steps for All Project

Building Foundations for Lifelong Learning: MIET AFRICA’s First Steps for All Project

This International Literacy Day we’re spotlighting MIET AFRICA’s inspiring First Steps for All project in the Uthukela district, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The project works with 15 schools to empower Grade R and Foundation Phase educators through early identification of learning barriers and the strengthening of inclusive, supportive school environments.

“Amongst all kinds of barriers that our learners experience, learning difficulty is the biggest challenge. Some of our older (Grade 3/4 ) learners cannot write their own names, nor can they read simple text. Our learner support agents (LSAs) take them for extra support and teach them foundational literacy skills like phonemic awareness. Understanding phonics seems to be the game changer!” Says First Steps for All Project and Training Manager, Thuli Dlamini.

Together with educators, district officials, caregivers and multisectoral networks, MIET AFRICA is building strong communities that help learners not just access school, but stay and thrive in school!

“Ignoring this population means failing them,” warns MIET AFRICA’s Dawn Jones on US foreign aid suspension

“Ignoring this population means failing them,” warns MIET AFRICA’s Dawn Jones on US foreign aid suspension

“If we ignore this population of vulnerable children and youth, especially the girls and young women, we are failing them.” These were the stark words of MIET AFRICA’s Director of South African Programmes and Advocacy, Dawn Jones, during a SABC News Late Edition interview. Her comments come in response to the recent announcement of a 90-day suspension of all US foreign assistance – a decision she warns will have devastating consequences.

“It doesn’t help that it’s just a pause – it’s 89 days too long,” Jones stated, emphasizing that the initial impact of the freeze would hit the world’s most vulnerable populations hardest.
According to The Guardian, UN agencies have already begun scaling back global aid operations, with immediate cuts to humanitarian assistance across multiple regions. The ripple effect is being felt worldwide.
“Ultimately, we cannot stop what we’re doing,” Jones stressed. “Civil society and the private sector must step up in solidarity to ensure this sector continues its essential work.”
Watch the full interview:

https://youtu.be/wwPZFArDZmg?feature=shared

South Africa Menstrual Health Snapshot

South Africa Menstrual Health Snapshot

MIET AFRICA, along with Days for Girls, the global menstrual health (MH) and hygiene advocacy group, and WASH United have just released the MH Country Snapshot on South Africa. MIET AFRICA’s Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, Dr Renjini Devaki contributed to the report which is aimed at providing MH advocates and organizations with high-level research on, and the status of, individual countries’ MH conditions, policies, rights and challenges.

Download the report and share widely.

New Regional Programme: FutureLife-Now!

New Regional Programme: FutureLife-Now!

FutureLife-Now! is a new regional programme that’s built on the successful Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) framework developed in the early 2000’s and that, in 2018, reached over 27 million of the region’s learners with support services. This innovative approach has strengthened the education sector’s ability to respond to the growing numbers of vulnerable children and youth in the region, by providing child and youth-friendly services in support of health, gender, migration, food security, violence and other challenges.

By bringing together two critical elements for human development – education and health­ – and by building upon the systems’ strengthening and policy development that has taken place through CSTL, FutureLife-Now! aims to promote greater self-confidence and hope for the present and future among young people in the SADC region. A combination of activities that includes strengthened HIV education policies, enhanced Comprehensive Sexuality Education,

REPORT: Regional Study of Vulnerability Amongst Schoolboys in South Africa

REPORT: Regional Study of Vulnerability Amongst Schoolboys in South Africa

In the years of implementing the SADC Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) programme, it has become increasing apparent to CSTL partners that there is a major gap in the delivery of school-based care and support to boys and young men, and that this gap is hindering programme and regional goals for gender equality, HIV reduction and improved educational outcomes for all children. Limited existing literature on boys and young men point to a dearth of evidence on the specific vulnerabilities of boys in schools, and what might be effective in addressing these vulnerabilities.  To this end, an exploratory regional research study was commissioned by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, to better understand the key issues and identify recommendations for future school-based programming.  Click here to download the full report.

 

Official launch of the Zimbabwe Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) National Model

Official launch of the Zimbabwe Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) National Model

Zimbabwe’s CSTL model was officially launched by Her Excellency, the First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa on 27 June 2019. The goal of the CSTL programme is that children and youth in SADC realise their rights to education, to safety and protection and to care and support, through an expanded and strengthened education sector response.

Click here for the full report.

 

MIET AFRICA Featured in EU Publication which Highlights the Fight to Promote and Protect Human Rights in South Africa

MIET AFRICA Featured in EU Publication which Highlights the Fight to Promote and Protect Human Rights in South Africa

MIET AFRICA is featured in the recently-published EU publication Walking the Long Road – a snapshot of civil society actors in South Africa. The EU has partnered and supported Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in South Africa for more than three decades to promote and protect human rights and work towards a more equitable and just society. The publication provides a glimpse into the work done by CSOs to fight for a South Africa in which every person’s rights are respected, protected, fulfilled and promoted.

Featured in the ‘Right to Education’ section of the publication, MIET AFRICA is a co-beneficiary with the British Council of an EU grant for a three-year Teaching for All: Mainstreaming Inclusive Education (IE) in South Africa Project. The project aims to improve the attitudes and capacity of pre-service and in-service teachers towards IE through the implementation of existing policy and the integration of training modules and courses on IE into universities and provincial education departments.