Improving the lives of children and youth
MIET AFRICA seeks to employ a suitably qualified Bookkeeper in a temporary position, until end January 2025. The successful candidate will be based at MIET AFRICA’s head office in Durban, South Africa for the duration of their contract. The candidate must be able to start immediately. View the job advert for more information and how to apply. Closing date is 22 November 2024.
It is with the heaviest hearts and deepest sorrow that we inform our stakeholders, partners, beneficiaries and colleagues of the untimely passing of our dear friend and colleague, Ntokozo Mokhethu. Ntokozo was a beloved member of the MIET AFRICA family for over 15 years, and his warm spirit and dedication to his work touched the lives of so many of us. Known and liked by so many, his positive presence and inspiring commitment left a lasting impact on all he worked with.
As someone who worked across various projects and programmes, Ntokozo became a trusted friend and confidant to many. His laughter, kindness and genuine care for his colleagues brought light to our days, and he was truly one in a million. For those of us who were privileged to know him, it is hard to express the profound sense of loss that we feel.
Ntokozo leaves behind a devoted wife,
Building on the 2024 International Day of the Girl, this webinar will explore girls’ visions for supportive menstrual environments in schools. Based on research from MIET Africa with support from UNICEF, we’ll delve into the importance of product choice and how education can empower girls to make informed decisions about menstrual care. Discover innovative solutions proposed by young women themselves for managing menstrual waste. Additionally, we’ll discuss the Menstrual Health Guidelines developed by South Africa’s Department of Basic Education to create more supportive menstrual environments in schools. MIET AFRICA is proud to be co-hosting a very important webinar which will be attended by the South African Minister of Basic Education (DBE), Ms Siviwe Gwarumbe, MP on 6 November at 14h00 SAST/CET .
MIET AFRICA joins the DBE and global menstrual health advocacy group, Days for Girls to co-host this event on Advancing Menstrual Health in South African Schools’ to advocate to break barriers to education by promoting menstrual health management,
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.
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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,
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.
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 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.
To commemorate Menstrual Health Day 2019, MIET AFRICA’s KwaZulu-Natal District Coordinator Nondumiso Mathenjwa distributed 1500 sanitary pads to Ntabeni Primary School (outside Esikhaleni Township, Richards Bay). This contribution is part of UNICEF South Africa and MIET AFRICA’s partnership project on ‘Strengthening school-based systems to improve education outcomes: sexual and reproductive health and rights, and menstrual hygiene management’. The sanitary pads – generously donated to MIET AFRICA by Donghae Diaper, a South Korean-based manufacturer of sanitary pads, tissues and wet wipes – are being distributed to learners through MIET AFRICA’s school-based programmes, in collaboration with the national Department of Basic Education and provincial education departments.
Pictured are learners from Ntabeni Primary School and Nondumiso Mathenjwa.
In March MIET AFRICA was invited to present a workshop on Curriculum Differentiation to mentors from Toyota-Teach, a sister organization involved in teacher development. The two-day workshop covered the need for adapting what we teach, how we teach, and where we teach.
Other topics included:
“The presentation was eye-opening and very informative in terms of how to group learners according to their levels of understanding,” said one workshop participant. “Now I am confident to capacitate teachers on the principles and strategies for differentiation,” said another.
