Non-profit · Management system
Funda Nenja: learning with the dog
Funda Nenja is a registered non-profit in Mpophomeni, a township of over 30 000 residents just outside Howick in KwaZulu-Natal. Its mission is to nurture children into caring, responsible young adults, using the bond between a child and their dog to teach kindness, respect and compassion.
Children bring their dogs to dog school every week. The dogs get free care at a weekly vet clinic and free sterilisation, a social worker visits each family with counselling, referrals and help applying for grants, and facilitators teach life skills and animal welfare in local primary schools.
- The year it all began
- 2009
- The year it all began
- Children at dog school every week
- 100+
- Children at dog school every week
- Residents in the community
- 30 000+
- Residents in the community
- Programmes, from dog school to family support
- 4
- Programmes, from dog school to family support
Why they needed it
A small team runs dog school, vet clinics, rabies and sterilisation outreach, home visits and school workshops, for hundreds of children, families and dogs. The funders who keep it going ask for detailed numbers every month and every year, so every clinic, class and visit has to be recorded and counted, and counting it up by hand took time away from the children.
What it changed
The figures funders ask for now come straight from the work the team records as it goes, and each family's whole story, from clinic visits to home visits, is in one place for whoever picks it up next.
What we built
A management system, shaped around how the team already worked, that holds every person, family, dog and event in one place.
- One address book for every family, child, school and partner, with each dog linked to its owner
- Clinic and outreach days captured on one screen: owners and dogs added on the spot and saved in one go
- Dog school attendance, promotions and returning students tracked class by class
- File notes, documents and reminders on every family's record
- Funder reports in a click: rabies vaccinations, sterilisations, vet clinics, workshops, and yearly figures by age, gender and disability
- Every report prints with a note on where its figures come from, and every change is recorded
