Social development training
As a social enterprise, we apply commercial strategies to improve the financial, social, and environmental wellbeing of the communities we’re in. We thus aim to maximise social impact alongside profits for our external shareholders. The Hoedspruit Hub is a well-known training partner to NGOs in the area. We pride ourselves on creating solutions to unique social development training challenges and would love to work with you to design a fun and innovative training course that meets your needs. Our Design and Development process is ISO 9001 certified.
Our social development courses include:
- Agroecology training
- Mandala garden setup and maintenance
- Saving clubs
- ICAM clubs
- numiknow® clubs
- Environmental clubs
- Youth development
- Functional Agricultural Numeracy (FAN)
- Customised
Agroecology training
Mandala garden setup and maintenance
Saving clubs
Savings Groups – Using the SaveAct methodology on Savings & Credit Groups (SCGs)
Purpose and background of SCGs
- To provide access to a simple savings and loan system that is managed by the group members, in a community that does not have access to formal financial services.
- The groups are self-selected voluntarily to form a SCG and save money, through savings contributions/ purchasing shares. Members can also borrow money from the SCG and pay it back with interest of 10%.
- SCGs are made up of 10-20 members so that meetings are manageable and big enough to create capital.
- SCGs are open to both men and women.
- All group members need to attend a mandatory 3-day training that explains the Savings and Credit system.
Structure of a SCG
- The SCG consists of a management committee including: Chairperson, Record-keeper, 2- money counters, 3 key holders and a box holder.
Constitution framework
- The constitution of a savings group is binding to all members and has a set of non-negotiables that must be adhered to at all times.
numiknow®
Value proposition: numiknow® is an interactive and engaging compendium of games that enables anyone struggling with numbers to develop mathematical proficiency to their required level enjoyably (and contribute to society and the economy).
What is mathematical proficiency?
- Mathematical proficiency is necessary “for anyone to learn mathematics successfully.”
- It consists of 5 components:
- Conceptual understanding – “Integrated and functional grasp of mathematical ideas”.
- Procedural fluency – “Knowledge of procedures, when and how to use them appropriately and skill in performing them flexibly, accurately and efficiently”.
- Strategic competence – “The ability to formulate mathematical problems, represent them and solve them”.
- Adaptive reasoning – “The capacity to think logically about the relationships among concepts and situations”.
- Productive dispositioning – “The tendency to see sense in mathematics, to perceive it as both useful and worthwhile, to believe that steady effort in learning mathematics pays off and to see oneself as an effective learner and doer of mathematics”.
- National Research Council 2001. Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/9822.
- DBE based the 2018 Mathematics Teaching and Learning Framework: Teaching Mathematics For Understanding on Adding It Up to support the CAPS curriculum in SA Schools.
Results with the 2023-204 SEF project:
Environmental clubs
