by Sonja Kruse | Jun 20, 2017 | Our News |
For the third year, FunDza brought False Bay College students involved in the Reading for Enjoyment Campaign to the Franschhoek Literary Festival. It was an honour to welcome 13 students and their lecturers to this popular literary event. The students attended three...
by Zimkhitha Mlanzeli | Apr 18, 2017 | Our News |
Sometime in early February, Mignon (FunDza’s Executive Director) shared a Creative Facilitation workshop with us and asked who would be interested in going. Being fully aware that the workshop would be over a weekend, we (Dorothy, Sonja and myself) signed up...
by Shelley Bolle | Feb 20, 2017 | Our News |
Have a look what’s in store for FunDza in March! 1 March: Dorothy does YEBO training in Gugulethu. 8-9 March: Mignon is in Johannesburg for the final module of Tsiba’s Financial Sustainability course. 10 March: Sonja hosts Reading for Enjoyment sessions at...
by Shelley Bolle | Feb 1, 2017 | Our News |
Even though we can’t believe we’re more than halfway through February, here is what we have been and what we will be up to in February: 6 February: Sonja Kruse provides training for the 2017 Year Beyond Volunteers in fun activities and games. 14...
by Shelley Bolle | Jan 18, 2017 | Our News |
A new year! We are excited for 2017, and all it holds for FunDza. With most staff returning to work after some vacation time on the 9th of January, we hit the ground running and can’t wait to get stuck in to 2017! Some events this month include: 10 January:...
by Sonja Kruse | Nov 7, 2016 | Our News |
From 24 – 28 Oct FunDza facilitated storytelling workshops with around 360 Early Childhood Development students at the False Bay College Khayelitsha campus. The aim of the workshop was to take the participants into their inner storytellers in order to encourage them...
by Sonja Kruse | Jul 8, 2016 | Our News |
Back in April FunDza had a strategy session about where we have come from and where we are going. We strategised, bonded and thought and thought. And we felt. Our hearts spoke of the shifts that we as South Africans need to make in order to help develop the...
by Sonja Kruse | May 5, 2016 | Our News |
The sound of silence in a dramatic pause in the middle of reading. That’s what I’m hooked on! Watching teens and young adults getting hooked on a story. That’s what I’m hooked on. I get to be on stage during reading and writing workshops. I am the young man sitting on...
by Dorothy Dyer | Feb 28, 2016 | Our News |
I was invited by the Education Department of the Eastern Cape, via the Eastern Cape Reading Association of South Africa (RASA), to visit PE and run a workshop for learners and their teachers on reading for pleasure and the FunDza materials available for use. About six...
