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Funda Wande

@funda_wande

Funda Wande is an NGO that aims to ensure that all learners in South Africa can read for meaning and calculate with confidence in their languages by age 10.

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Day 2 of the Funda Wande Programmes Assembly! Our teams are deeply engaged in discussions, refining strategies to strengthen literacy and numeracy interventions. Today’s key focus is on scaling impact through collaboration. #ProgrammesAssembly2025 #FundaWande

Day 2 of the Funda Wande Programmes Assembly! 

Our teams are deeply engaged in discussions, refining strategies to strengthen literacy and numeracy interventions. Today’s key focus is on scaling impact through collaboration. 

#ProgrammesAssembly2025 #FundaWande
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Day 2 of the Funda Wande Programmes Assembly! Today's sessions sparked deep reflections on progress and strategy. The focus was on thinking through scale and impact, driving key conversations on expanding our reach while maintaining quality. #ProgrammesAssembly2025 #Education

Day 2 of the Funda Wande Programmes Assembly!

Today's sessions sparked deep reflections on progress and strategy. The focus was on thinking through scale and impact, driving key conversations on expanding our reach while maintaining quality.

#ProgrammesAssembly2025 #Education
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🇿🇦 Join us tomorrow! Don’t miss the World Bank South Africa Economic Update Launch. 🔹 Keynote: Hon. Siviwe Gwarube, Dep. Basic Education 🔹 Insights from Satu Kahkonen, World Bank Africa & education experts 📍 Watch live here: wrld.bg/zrAJ50UJZm9

🇿🇦 Join us tomorrow! Don’t miss the <a href="/WorldBank/">World Bank</a> South Africa Economic Update Launch.
🔹 Keynote: Hon. Siviwe Gwarube, <a href="/DBE_SA/">Dep. Basic Education</a> 
🔹 Insights from Satu Kahkonen, <a href="/WorldBankAfrica/">World Bank Africa</a>  &amp; education experts
📍 Watch live here: wrld.bg/zrAJ50UJZm9
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Celebrating World Read Aloud Day! Today, we join the global movement to celebrate World Read Aloud Day (WRAD), a day dedicated to the power of storytelling and the joy of shared reading. #WorldReadAloudDay #ReadingForMeaning #FundaWande

Celebrating World Read Aloud Day! 

Today, we join the global movement to celebrate World Read Aloud Day (WRAD), a day dedicated to the power of storytelling and the joy of shared reading. 

#WorldReadAloudDay #ReadingForMeaning #FundaWande
David Maynier (@davidmaynier) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Had a great visit to Nal’uxulo Primary School in Philippi with Minister Siviwe Gwarube, CEO Mark Suzman and Director Ben Piper of the Gates Foundation to see how the Funda Wande programme improves reading and Maths literacy in our schools!

Had a great visit to Nal’uxulo Primary School in Philippi with Minister <a href="/Siviwe_G/">Siviwe Gwarube</a>, CEO Mark Suzman and Director Ben Piper of the <a href="/gatesfoundation/">Gates Foundation</a> to see how the <a href="/funda_wande/">Funda Wande</a> programme improves reading and Maths literacy in our schools!
Siviwe Gwarube (@siviwe_g) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This morning I visited Na’luxolo Primary School with @davidmaynier and the Gates Foundation to witness the Funda Wande programme in action. Funda Wande develops structured pedagogy materials aimed at training teachers on how to teach reading and maths using an evidence based

ReadingPanel (@readingpanel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka opened the session and welcomed the presence of the Dept Basic Education as part of the process, which, she added is tough but do-able. #2030ReadingPanel Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Dep. Basic Education

Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka opened the session and welcomed the presence of the Dept Basic Education as part of the process, which, she added is tough but do-able. #2030ReadingPanel <a href="/phumlambongcuka/">Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka</a> <a href="/DBE_SA/">Dep. Basic Education</a>
Youth Impact (@youthimpactorg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Don’t miss these exciting sessions panel sessions we are taking part in on Monday at #CIES2025: Applying Behavioural Science to Improve Teacher Uptake of Pedagogical Best Practices for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in Sub-Saharan Africa and India (Panel) 🕒Time: 9.45 -

Don’t miss these exciting sessions panel sessions we are taking part in on Monday at #CIES2025:

Applying Behavioural Science to Improve Teacher Uptake of Pedagogical Best Practices for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in Sub-Saharan Africa and India (Panel)
🕒Time: 9.45 -
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Tendekai Mukoyi-Nkwane Funda Wande Central Square Foundation Ashoka University Implementation Science? Decoding the complexity and contextual nature of system change work in large scale government-nonprofit collaborative programs in India (Panel) 🕒Time: 9.45 - 11.00 am 📍Location: Palmer House, 3rd Floor, Salon 5 #CIES2025 #YouthImpact

<a href="/tende_mukoyi/">Tendekai Mukoyi-Nkwane</a> <a href="/funda_wande/">Funda Wande</a> <a href="/CSF_India/">Central Square Foundation</a> <a href="/AshokaUniv/">Ashoka University</a> Implementation Science? Decoding the complexity and contextual nature of system change work in large scale government-nonprofit collaborative programs in India (Panel)
🕒Time: 9.45 - 11.00 am
📍Location: Palmer House, 3rd Floor, Salon 5

#CIES2025 #YouthImpact
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We're excited to share that Funda Wande is in Chicago for the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Conference from March 22–26! Stay tuned as we introduce our speakers and highlight our upcoming sessions. #CIES2025 #EducationForImpact #FundaWande

We're excited to share that Funda Wande is in Chicago for the Comparative &amp; International Education Society (CIES) Conference from March 22–26! 

Stay tuned as we introduce our speakers and highlight our upcoming sessions. 

#CIES2025 #EducationForImpact #FundaWande
David Maynier (@davidmaynier) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great discussion with Funda Wande and other education stakeholders this morning about how we implement consistent, scalable programmes to improve literacy and numeracy in the Western Cape!

Great discussion with <a href="/funda_wande/">Funda Wande</a> and other education stakeholders this morning about how we implement consistent, scalable programmes to improve literacy and numeracy in the Western Cape!
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[READ] Funda Wande’s statement on the tragic case of Grade 1 learner Cwecwe in Matatiele. We stand for justice, safety & dignity for every child. No silence in the face of violence. #JusticeForCwecwe #SafeSchoolsNow #FundaWande

[READ] Funda Wande’s statement on the tragic case of Grade 1 learner Cwecwe in Matatiele.

We stand for justice, safety &amp; dignity for every child. No silence in the face of violence.

#JusticeForCwecwe #SafeSchoolsNow #FundaWande
Learning Changes Everything (@fln_matters) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔊New Episode Alert! 🗣️We explore Funda Wande structured pedagogy program, which is instrumental in improving foundational literacy and numeracy by ensuring that children learn to "read for meaning" and "calculate with confidence" 🎧 Listen on Spotify! shorturl.at/6XhDV

🔊New Episode Alert!

🗣️We explore <a href="/funda_wande/">Funda Wande</a>  structured pedagogy program, which is instrumental in improving foundational literacy and numeracy by ensuring that children learn to "read for meaning" and "calculate with confidence"

🎧 Listen on Spotify!
shorturl.at/6XhDV
Funda Wande (@funda_wande) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🗓 14 May 2025 Funda Wande's Head of Programmes, Zolani Metu🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈, will be speaking at the #TrialogueBIS2025 Conference on “Cracking the code: How companies partner with NPOs.” 📍 Johannesburg 💻 Livestream available #SocialImpact #EducationMatters #PartnershipsForChange

🗓 14 May 2025

Funda Wande's Head of Programmes, <a href="/zolanimetu/">Zolani Metu🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈</a>, will be speaking at the #TrialogueBIS2025 Conference on “Cracking the code: How companies partner with NPOs.”

📍 Johannesburg 
💻 Livestream available

#SocialImpact #EducationMatters #PartnershipsForChange
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Happy Youth Day! Join the Youth Dialogue on Language Justice and Youth Empowerment livestream on You Tube youtube.com/live/4_nwDNYAu… "Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future." - Nelson Mandela

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The day is in full swing. Are you watching the live stream on You Tube? youtube.com/watch?v=4_nwDN… Our Head of Programmes, Zolani Metu was on the stage as a co-moderator focusing on the importance of using mother tongue language in the classroom.

The day is in full swing.

Are you watching the live stream on You Tube? youtube.com/watch?v=4_nwDN…

Our Head of Programmes, Zolani Metu was on the stage as a co-moderator focusing on the importance of using mother tongue language in the classroom.
Funda Wande (@funda_wande) 's Twitter Profile Photo

[Events] Highlights from AMESA Congress 2025 😃 Our Foundation Phase Instructional Coaches, Tutula Diniso and Vuyokazi Mafilika, recently presented on Practical Ways to Teach Space and Shape Using the Bala Wande Materials and Methodologies. #AMESACongress2025 #fundwande

[Events] Highlights from AMESA Congress 2025 😃

Our Foundation Phase Instructional Coaches, Tutula Diniso and Vuyokazi Mafilika, recently presented on Practical Ways to Teach Space and Shape Using the Bala Wande Materials and Methodologies. 

#AMESACongress2025 #fundwande
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[Events] AMESA DAY 3 Our Team hosted a workshop on “Equal Exchange: Effective Teaching of Place Value in the Foundation Phase.” Lots of laughs and smiles as teachers demonstrate equal exchange to each other using maths manipulatives. #fundawande #balawande #AMESACongress2025

[Events] AMESA DAY 3
Our Team hosted a workshop on “Equal Exchange: Effective Teaching of Place Value in the Foundation Phase.”

Lots of laughs and smiles as teachers demonstrate equal exchange to each other using maths manipulatives.

#fundawande #balawande #AMESACongress2025