3 May: Dorothy visits the YearBeyond groups at Intshukumo and Phoenix High Schools
5 May: Mignon Keyser facilitates a strategy meeting at FunDza’s offices with staff and trustees, Xolisa Guzula and Rethabile Mashale-Sonibare
6 May: Xolisa and Rethabile have a post-strategy de-brief with Mignon
8 May: Dorothy visits the YearBeyond Inkwenkwezi High School
9 May: Dorothy visits Oval North, another school that’s part of the YearBeyond programme
10 May: Mignon and Veronica attend the MOD YearBeyond Quarterly Principals Meeting at The River Club
11 May: Zimkhitha and Ros head to Johannesburg to run outreach programmes as part of the Kingsmead Book Fair
11 May: Dorothy travels to Port Elizabeth to run teacher workshops for a Xenex project
12 May: FunDza’s “Five Lines of Freedom” competition closes – winners will be announced before the end of the month
12 May: Dorothy and Mignon kick off our FunDza Writing Clubs pilot project, with a workshop for facilitators in Johannesburg
13 May: Mignon and Dorothy attends the Sunday Times Literary Awards in Johannesburg
16 May: Nandi attends the Western Cape After School Community of Practice (CoP) workshop at Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha
17 May: Mignon attends a stakeholder meeting about the exciting Evoke! Literacy project (details to follow later)
18 May: Zimkhitha and Thulisa take a trip to Franschhoek to introduce schools to FunDza’s mobi site as part of the Franschhoek Literary Festival outreach programme
19 May: FunDza gives students from False Bay College a treat – three different sessions at the Franschhoek Literary Festival!
23 May: Shelley attends Inyathelo’s Write-Shop in Woodstock