Funza Group

23/03/2020

On the 7th of March, the Funza team went to Majengo Primary School once again, and worked with a new group of energetic Year 6 children! After icebreakers, including the Cinderella game and a rock-paper-scissors tournament, we divided them into 3 groups and gave them items and asked them to pitch them to us, and the group that got the most votes won prizes! Here they demonstrated how confident they were with public speaking. Stay tuned!

11/03/2020

On the 25th of January 2020, Funza had their first session with Grade 6 and 7 students from Majengo Primary school! We played some games outside with the children to get them energized and to warmly get to know each other. Some of the games were the 'name game' and 'concentration'. Then we all spoke a bit about what we love doing with our free time, our strengths, and how we would like to improve our confidence in a circle, after which each of the executives co-ordinated team-building activities in smaller groups! Keep up with us to see how our journey with Majengo Primary school progresses!

15/01/2020

In the 'Improvisation' session at the Funza Summit, the ability to improvise is what distinguished a good speaker from a good memorizer. Improvisation is a big part of what we emphasize as part of our goal here at Funza. During the session, we prompted the children to speak about familiar and unfamiliar objects, words, and multimedia in a variety of scenarios to improve their communication skills, tone variations, gesture, and posture when speaking.

08/01/2020

The Let's Express Ourselves (LEO) session dealt with identifying and expressing one's emotions in a variety of ways, such as drawings, dancing, and through verbal communication. Here in Funza, we believe that effective expression forms the backbone of oratory skill builing, which is why it was vital for us to include this session in the Summit.

24/12/2019

The innovation session was dedicated to building and bringing out the creativity, ingenuity and design skills of children, as well as promote quick thinking in unfamiliar situations. To that end, we carried out coloring and drawing activities, and the tower building activity pictured below, which led to some entertaining results! The tower building activity, in particular, was a highlight because the children were provided several unusual materials such as spaghetti and marshmallows, and told to build several structures out of them. This prompted them to communicate with each other about what they were building and how they planned to build it. This promoted collaboration and allowed children to bond with people they had never met.

18/12/2019

On the 28th and 29th of September 2019, we held the first ever Funza Summit at the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa! The Summit brought together 30 students to experience 5 sessions (Improvisation, Let's Express Ourselves, Self-Awareness, Innovation, and Roleplay) under the banner of confidence and expression. Over the coming days, we will post about each session that we carried out for the students at the Summit which we are still improving, so stay tuned!

22/06/2019

On the 15th of June 2019, Funza partnered with Samba Sports at their 'GalPower Fun Day' event to mentor girls aged 12 to 14 from South Coast on value-based education!
This was an opportunity for the team to partner with key schools that are motivated in their pursuit to empower their children to develop values of humility, confidence and creativity.

01/03/2019

Did you know that 3 out of 4 people have glossophobia? -the fear of public speaking, or 'stage fright'. This can definitely change however, because we all know just how powerful our voices can become to strike change in the world!

Yesterday Thursday 28th February 2019 we continued from our previous session on improvisational speaking, but this time focusing on presenting on more relatable events and ideas. Funza banded closely with the Coast Academy team on an individual basis for peer feedback on their speaking skills.

Giving feedback to peers, Margaret Makoba, the executive of Funza Management, highlighted key issues in public speaking that can hinder learning in the classroom, listing redundancy and excessive repetition of words to name a few.

We hope to be mindful of such details when striving for more passionate learning through speech. The Coast Academy students are already starting to improve their confidence in the sessions so far!

Watchout for our next series of sessions with warm-up preparation in other aspects of oratory skill-building with Coast Academy! @ COAST Academy international school

21/02/2019

Wonderful second session with Coast Academy on Wednesday 20th February 2019!

We started our program on oratory skill building with an improvisation speaking activity for the students to build their confidence on the spot! In pairs the Coast Academy attempted to create stories and representations of abstract pictures that we displayed onscreen.

Among the Funza team giving feedback to Coast Academy students on their speaking skills, Aaryan Ajani, head of Activity Leading, stressed on the importance of posture in presenting ideas, products or anything else to an audience.

Looking to continue this activity and more with the students in our next session!

07/02/2019

07/02/2019

Great first meet with Year 10 students from Coast Academy, Mombasa!
On Tuesday 5th February 2019, Funza visited Coast Academy, Mombasa, starting of a powerful partnership based on the students' potential to become more confident, passionate learners.

We were able to interact with and introduce the goals of Funza to the students, hopeful for more sessions together!

20/01/2019

Check out our new Instagram page to catch up on our progress and developments to improve learning and confidence of the next generation!