FFF is aimed at high school learners from Grade 8 to Grade 12. MMS is aimed at young adults about to enter the job market and those who recently started working in their respective professions as well as those in work readiness programmes in our Non-Profit Organisations partner network.

The programme was initiated on 1 April 2021 and available until 31 July 2021. With a pre-launch of the MMS programme during Money Smart Week South Africa on the 25th of March 2021. Momentum ran a campaign on social media to encourage participation in the MMS programme, another campaign was initiated during the month of July 2021. There are exciting innovative changes coming for the 2022 financial year, and we are looking forward to clients and the public experiencing the course for themselves.

We reached over 70% female participants and the programme had a 36% rural footprint in 9 provinces. The course is specifically aimed at high school learners between the ages of 14 and 18. Learners from over 2400 schools discussed entrepreneurship as an alternative career path and income generation with trained facilitators, where in some cases a mentorship evolved.

Our face-to-face Metro Kick Starz programme is currently undergoing a needs analysis and has been recently revamped to align to the Economic Management Sciences and Business Studies high school curriculum, with a focus on entrepreneurship. We will roll out the new face-to-face programme once we return to schools, for now we are offering the digital WhatsApp programme that has received resounding success with scalability. A pilot of the aligned content was conducted during October 2020 where participants entered their business ideas and stood a chance to each win tools to assist with implementation of their business ideas.

Offered under the Metropolitan brand and funded by the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation. The 2nd edition is a collaboration between Momentum Metropolitan CSI and the writers at FunDza, encompassing financial concepts and real-life lessons on the sensitive subject of finance experienced by a South African family living in Soweto.

2021 saw over 8500 registrations from participants across 9 provinces, where 66% were female and 59% were unemployed persons looking for jobs. We are grateful that we were able to reach a large number of our youth nationally, with 93% being between the ages of 18 and 36. The creative element of the story makes for very interesting reading, encouraging English literacy amongst our youth, released in time for Money Smart Week South Africa on the 25th of March 2021.

For more information on the latest edition and other e-books available for free visit the FunDza.mobi website: https://live.fundza.mobi/

You could also publish your very own story with FunDza, click on this link to find out how: https://live.fundza.mobi/help/how-do-i-get-published-on-fundza/