by Nadeema Musthan | Sep 14, 2021 | Our News
LITASA – the Literacy Association of South Africa – has always been a great supporter and friend of FunDza, since our first presentation at one of their conferences 10 years ago. Since then their conferences have been a highlight of our annual calendars as...
by Nadeema Musthan | Sep 11, 2021 | Our News
In June 2021, we won R25,000 for our pitch to the MTN Donors’ Den to develop an online course on entrepreneurship. (The Donor’s Den was part of the Trialogue Business in Society Conference, and this year’s theme focused on using technology in education.) Our online...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jul 29, 2021 | Our News
You’ve heard right… FunDza is looking for a new director! It’s been more than 10 years for me at the helm of this fantastic organisation – and both FunDza and I are ready – ready for a change. A change of pace, for me; and a change of leadership and...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jul 27, 2021 | Our News |
FunDza is delighted to have been selected as one of three nonprofits pitching at this year’s MTN Donor’s Den as part of the Trialogue Business in Society Conference. This year’s theme focused on using technology for education. With a top prize of R25,000, we decided...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jul 27, 2021 | Our News |
FunDza is proud to announce that Zilungile Zimela – Marketing and PR Manager for FunDza – has been selected as one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans for 2021. She was awarded under the Education category. For the past 15 years, Mail & Guardian...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jun 22, 2021 | Our News
Heartlines is a not-for-profit company that develops values-based interventions supporting social and behavioural change. They also believe in the power of story, and we have always admired their work. So we are delighted to be partnering with them to run a writing...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jun 22, 2021 | Our News
Four days after FunDza had been officially incorporated as a nonprofit trust, it made its first book donation: 10 copies of the book Broken Promises to Ikamva Youth in Masiphumelele. There was a hand-over event at the Masiphumelele library with dancing, ululating and...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jun 22, 2021 | Our News
Whenever we survey our readers and writers we ask them for suggestions on how we can improve what we do. We get a lot of useful feedback and try to put into action whatever we can, if realistic and possible. Apart from requests for more content, more courses and more...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 14, 2021 | Our News
We know from our annual survey that many of our readers – 40% in fact – are unemployed and looking for work. With this in mind, we approached Harambee, an organisation working to support youth in this area, to help us develop a course that would be helpful to them. It...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 12, 2021 | Our News
This year we launched an exciting new project to develop our young writers: the FunDza Fellowship – a 10-month writing programme for 15 of our aspiring writers, conducted virtually. We selected young people, who had previously submitted Fanz writing or entered FunDza...
