About 100 NMMU students came together to share their views and ideas on one big question: How can students get involved with Masifunde? The Mind factory was hosted by Masifunde and NMMU marketing students and was buzzing with young people all interested in sharing their ideas about how students can get involved with Masifunde.

1. Mind Factory – Evaluation
Students’ ideas and wishes
for a cooperation between
NMMU and Masifunde
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2. Table of Content
1. Background information
2. Mind Factory
2.1. Goals
2.2. Programme
2.3. Evaluation
2.3.1. Interest in getting involved
2.3.2. Fields of involvement
2.3.3. Forms of involvement
2.3.4. Places of involvement
2.3.5. Ideas for involvement
2.3.6. Requirements
2.3.7. Incentives for involvement and commitment
3. Summary
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3. Background
 Planned partnership between NMMU and Masifunde
 G l of partnership: Increase the involvement of South
Goal f t hi I th i l t f S th
African students in Masifunde
 State of affairs:
 Successful partnership with International Office
 Successful involvement of international students
 M t li t
Mutual interest on a partnership b t
t t hi between NMMU
and Masifunde on a first meeting on the 16.8.2011
 NMMU is drafting a Memorandum of Understanding
 Masifunde organised Mind Factory to involve the
students in the planning process  Bottom-up
approach
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4. About the Mind Factory
 Interactive workshop on the 23rd of October at the 2nd
Avenue Campus of NMMU
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 Organized by the Marketing department of NMMU in
cooperation with Masifunde
 Participants:
Approximately 70 participants from different departments
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5. About the Mind Factory
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6. Mind Factory: Goals
 Bottom up approach: Build the cooperation between Masifunde and
Bottom-up
NMMU on their students’ ideas
 C t ownership among students
Create hi t d t
 Find out about the students’ interests and motivation for possible
involvement with Masifunde
 Find out about students’ capacities for community work and
volunteering
 Get a realistic idea of how a cooperation could look like and which
requirements would have to be met
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7. Mind Factory: Programme
Time Activity
12.30 Opening and Welcome
12.35 Introduction of Masifunde
12.45 Group Work (11 groups with 6-8 students): Brainstorming
1. Imagine you had no restrictions at all (money, time, transport etc.), what
could NMMU students do to contribute to the goals of Masifunde?
How could the different departments get involved?
a) Hands on: Practical work with the youth of Walmer Township
b) Management and general support
2.
2 Given all the restrictions you face:
Which requirements have to be met in order to realize your ideas?
What would Masifunde and the NMMU need to offer to make commitment
more attractive for students?
13.40 Wrap-up Discussion
13.50 Individual Questionnaire
14.00 Closing
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8. Mind Factory: Evaluation
 Summary of the results are based on:
1. Minutes of 11 groups of the group works
2. 67 individual questionnaires
- Self-assessment
- Assessment of fellow students
(e.g. “How would you rate the interest of your
fellow students?)
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9. Evaluation: Interest for involvement
 Are the participants interested in getting involved with Masifunde?
 97 % of the participants have a general interest
 Assessment of fellow students:
6%
Are their fellow students interested in 33%
getting involved with Masifunde? highly
interested
• 94% are i t t d
interested
slightly
61% interested
• The majority of participants could afford
not interested
2-3 hours a week for Masifunde
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10. Evaluation: Fields of involvement
 In which field would you/ your fellow students like to get involved?
Awareness/ Communication/ 66,2
Marketing 66,7
43,1
Working with the learners assessment of
42,4 other students
Event-Management/ Project 36,9
planning 33,3 self-assessment
35,4
Fundraising
24,2
12,3
Financial planning
0
0 20 40 60 80
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11. Evaluation: Form of involvement
 How would you/your fellow students like to get involved?
51,5
Internship
56,9
self-assessment
47
Project work
43,1
assessment of other
students
36,4
Weekly
W kl sessions
i
40
0 20 40 60
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12. Evaluation: Places of involvement
 Where would you/your fellow students like to get involved?
67,7
On campus
63,6
At the Masifunde office in 36,9 assessment of
Walmer suburb other students
34,8
34 8
self-
In the Education Center in 33,8
assessment
Walmer township
W l t hi 47,0
15,4
From home
21,2
0,0
, 20,0
, 40,0
, 60,0
, 80,0
,
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13. Evaluation: Ideas for involvement
How could NMMU students get
Involved with Masifunde in practice?
1. Support of existing Masifunde programmes:
 Homework assistance
 Assistance of groups of specialists (Drama,
Journalism classes, Music, Sports, Arts, Film, IT)
 Organizing extra-ordinary events
 ‘Learn4Life!’ (Life skill programme)
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 Assistance of leisure activities/social development
events, e.g.
events e g summer camp workshops
camp,
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14. Evaluation: Ideas for involvement
2. Future involvement of NMMU students could include:
 Counseling and mentoring
Examples: career counseling, career fair in Walmer location
buddies for high school learners, expose learners to NMMU…
 Internships in various fields
Examples: education, marketing, accounting, project
management…
 Offering extra-curricular activities
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Examples: computer lessons, ballet, musical and dance
classes,
classes various sports …
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15. Evaluation: Ideas for involvement
2. Future involvement of NMMU students could include:
 Running a soup kitchen in the cafeteria of the new educational
center
 Organizing fun activities
Examples: Talent shows, fashion shows, movie nights…
 Community radio for Walmer township
 Building a playground in Walmer township
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16. Evaluation: Ideas for involvement
2. Future involvement of NMMU students could include:
 Founding a Masifunde society at NMMU
 Possible activities of a Masifunde society:
o Promoting Masifunde/ recruiting volunteers on campus
o Public Relations/ advertisement: e.g. Community radio,
facebook, twitter, posters, flyers, word of mouth,
community/local newspapers
o Raising awareness
g
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17. Evaluation: Ideas for involvement
2. Future involvement of NMMU students could include:
 Possible activities of Masifunde society:
o Coordination of donations from different NMMU
departments (e.g. used computers, instruments etc.) and
arrangements concerning the use of NMMU facilities by
Masifunde, e.g. sport fields
o Fundraising activities (e.g. events, charity events,
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production of bags, t-shirts etc. with the learners, promoting
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Masifunde at local business, tin cans, car wash)
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18. Evaluation: Requirements
What would students need from Masifunde/ NMMU to be able to
volunteer?
Certification 59,4
Transport 57,8
Academic credits 43,8
Training 39,1
Payment 12,5
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
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19. Evaluation: Requirements
Which requirements should be met to realize the
students’ ideas?
 Transport
 Certificates for volunteering
 Academic credits for volunteering
 Providing lunch
 Regular e-mail communication between students and Masifunde
 Contact person and venue for Masifunde society at NMMU
 Willingness of lecturers to include projects involving Masifunde in their
curriculum (e.g. p j
( g project work: advertisement campaign for Masifunde)
p g )
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20. Evaluation: Incentives
Which incentives could be set in order to encourage
students to get involved with Masifunde?
 Expose the students to Walmer township/ raise awareness
 Provide academic credits
 Include projects with Masifunde in curriculum
 Opportunities of internships
 Issue certificates, letters of recommendation
 Offer job opportunities
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 Team building/ training for the volunteers
 Develop skills e g facilitation skills
skills, e.g.
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21. Evaluation: Findings
1. Every student considered themselves to be interested, but only
considered every second student t b slightly i t
id d d t d t to be li htl interested.
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2. More students are interested in back-office support (PR, awareness,
fundraising...) th i h d
f d i i ) than in hands-on support (working with th children).
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3. More students are interested in internships and in project work (=
intensive participation for a limited period) th i weekly volunteering
i t i ti i ti f li it d i d) than in kl l t i
(= long term with a few hours)
4. The
4 Th most appreciated place t get involved i at NMMU C
t i t d l to t i l d is t Campus. T
Two
thirds of the students doubt that their fellow students would like to get
involved
in ol ed in the ed cational centre at Walmer to nship
educational township.
 Need of creating a Masifunde society on Campus
 Need to supply transport
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22. Evaluation: Findings
5. The students demonstrated their creative energy in developing ideas
for their own involvement. In a future cooperation they can enrich
Masifunde with their innovativeness.
6. Students regard co-operation between NMMU and Masifunde as a
win-win-situation: Students can apply their theoretical knowledge in
practice while contributing to community development.
7. There is a need to expose middle- and upper-class students to the
township life and a need to raise awareness concerning the need of
community development especially in terms of education.
y p p y
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23. Evaluation: Findings
8. Many students don’t believe in the willingness of pure volunteering of
students
 Students see a need of the implementation of a mixed system of
a) compulsory involvement:
• Inclusion in curriculum (practical part of modules)/credits
• Compulsory internships
b) Incentives for volunteering:
• Certificates provided by Masifunde
• Training ( g Team building, facilitation skills, soft skills)
g (e.g. g, , )
• Provision of transport
• Provision of food
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24. Contact in South Africa
Masifunde Learner Development
40 Main Road
Port Elizabeth 6070
South Africa
Web: www.masifunde.com
www.facebook.com/masifunde
www.vimeo.com/masifunde
Contact persons: Lubabalo Valisa & Jonas Schumacher
Mobile: 0027 78 646 80 56
Office: 0027 41 581 25 43
Email: info@masifunde.de
info@masifunde de
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