At the end of 2018, we focused on the word D I S R U P T. By pausing, thinking, confronting and disrupting everyday challenges in our community we are shaking up the outcome and taking control of our own futures. We believe that we are all the disrupters. And, understanding that power helps us to create a better world together. A disruption is a way of interrupting an event, activity, or process by causing a disturbance in the problem. It means to throw that problem, or challenge, into confusion, disarray, havoc, make a mess of, destroy the structure of, or turn upside down.
We shed a light on everyday challenges in our community and discussed social responsibility, both individually and systemically. We also shared stories of noisemakers, game-changers, and disruptors in our own community!
Challenge #1:
By the age of five, the human brain is nearly fully formed. These years are critical for a child’s development, yet less than 16% of children in KwaZulu-Natal have access to Early Education. You are changing that by providing 72 children with a fair start in life through Thanda’s Early Childhood Development Programme.
Highlights
Read Zande and Hlengiwe’s story here.
Read about Fun Foundations here.
Challenge #2:
Our education system has not changed in over 120 years and 80% of Grade 4 students in South Africa can’t read for meaning. Education is broken, but you are fixing that and creating lifelong learners through After-school Education.
Highlights
Read Smiso’s disruption story here.
Read about Ndoduzo and the Thanda Chess Team here.
Read about how you’ve disrupted illiteracy and created a love of reading here.
Challenge #3:
One-fourth of children in South Africa suffer from stunting due to malnutrition and only 12% of people in our community are employed. You are bringing food security and building a local economy with Organic Farming.
Highlights
Read Angel’s disruption story here.
Challenge #4:
Children in our community have so many responsibilities and there are many child headed households. We want to give children in our community a place to be children! That’s where our Community Centre comes in…
Read Bule’s disruption story here.
Read Sthembiso’s disruption story here.
Thank you!
