Q3 2023 Newsletter: First All-Girls Coding & Leadership Class
Welcome to the Autumn 2023 update from ZOF – bridging digital skills to ambitious, low-income students in southern Africa
🔎 In this newsletter
💪 Recent highlights
Watch our ZOF Africa video showcasing our courses and impact on the ground. Short on time? Watch our trailer instead
80 students completed coding, robotics, and leadership courses
First all-girls class of 30 students complete Python coding course
Takunda Chingonzoh joins our Board of Trustees (UK)
✨ Spotlight on
Ipsos, a leading multinational market research firm, has donated 63 laptops this year
ZOFunteer of the month Timon Rueckel
💵 Financials & impact
$23,911 spent on programmes so far this year
110 scholarships awarded for coding & leadership training
📢 Asks
💰 Please consider donating 💰 we are a volunteer-run charity and rely on personal donations to fund our important work on the ground
Donate your company’s used laptops (UK-based readers)
30 girls attend ZOF Africa's first all-girls coding class sponsored by ABC Foundation
Students in ZOF Africa's first all-girls coding class
Our alumni are now helping facilitate ZOF Africa courses in Harare
✨ Spotlight on
🤝 Ipsos and its subsidiary Intrasonics, who have donated 63 used laptops this year. These have enabled over 80 students this year to access Python & robotics classes. Ipsos is a leading multinational research firm
🙋♂️Volunteer of the month: Timon Rueckel
In 2021, Timon traveled to Zimbabwe to help shift ZOF’s activities from traditional skills training to today’s tech and entrepreneurship focus ⌨️.
He initiated ZOF’s first such programmes through partnerships he built on the ground. He works closely with St. Joseph’s Halfway House and its manager, Juma Magwira, who plays an essential role in running and further refining ZOF‘s programmes on the ground.
Trying his best to enable Zimbabwe’s youth to become system change leaders and making meaningful connections in Zimbabwe make ZOF a wonderful part of Timon‘s life 👬.
Timon and Juma (ZOF Africa representative on the ground)
📈 Financial Update - Year-To-Date
Consolidated figures Q1-Q3 2023
Total raised: $25,375
USA: $15,425
UK: £8,210 ($9,950)
Programme expenditures: $23,911
USA: $13,681 (incl. $7,525 not yet transferred)
UK: £8,436 ($10,230)
Admin expenses: $2,295
USA: $685
UK: £1,333 ($1,610)
Finance expenses: $330
USA: $180
UK: £125 ($150)
Impact 🚀
This year, 105 students from low-income backgrounds received training in Python Coding, Robotics, and Leadership training
25 ambitious, high-potential students will attend follow-up courses with The Maker Club, and we will seek to pair the top performers with internships after
23 students growing up in a children’s home attended various tech courses, including an intermediate drone engineering & piloting course (6), coding (10), and 3D printing (7)