by Nadeema Musthan | Dec 13, 2021 | Our News
We first started our ‘developing young writers’ programme 10 years ago because our online readers were inspired by FunDza’s stories and wanted to write and get published too. Since the first Fanz pieces were published in May 2011 on fundza.mobi, we...
by Team Fundza | Nov 25, 2021 | Our News
We are delighted to announce the winners of the My Life My Choice Course Competition! The course was sponsored by JnJ’s DREAMS Thina Abantu Abasha project (you can read more about them here) and ran from 1 October 2021 till the 14 November. We hope that all the 2000...
by Nadeema Musthan | Nov 12, 2021 | Our News |
We are delighted to announce the winners of the NRC Readathon! From 15 September to 30 October 2021, FunDza ran a fun Readathon in partnership with the National Education Collaboration Trust’s National Reading Coalition. Find out more about the project here. The NRC...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 27, 2021 | Our News |
The board and staff of the FunDza Literacy Trust are delighted to welcome Lea-Anne Moses to the team as the incoming director. Lea-Anne officially joins FunDza on 1 December 2021. Lea-Anne brings a wealth of experience in the nonprofit and corporate CSI space to the...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 26, 2021 | Our News
FunDza has been proud to be part of the NECT’s National Reading Coalition nearly since its inception. And, with lockdown, we were able to offer them online resources and support to teachers, learners and reading champions they work with. Our latest collaboration has...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 26, 2021 | Our News |
Two years ago, the Western Cape branch of the Literacy Association of SA ran a very successful workshop with CPUT education students on writing academic essays. Then, with lockdown and the added stresses that this put on the students, CPUT lecturers asked if there was...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 26, 2021 | Our News
At FunDza, we are always keen to work with partners who share our values and, like us, believe in the power of stories. Last year we developed four stories for the Dreams Thina Abantu Abasha programme which is a youth-led pilot programme, funded by Johnson &...
by Team Fundza | Oct 19, 2021 | Our News
The Fantastic FunDza Fanz Giveaway Competition ran again for the month of September and enabled FunDza to celebrate its fantastic BIG FunDza readers! Each day we collected the details of the top 50 logged-in readers. There were then four rounds of random draws and ten...
by Nadeema Musthan | Sep 21, 2021 | Our News
We are very excited to announce that for the President’s next Virtual Reading Club the book being discussed is to be found on FunDza’s site. The Virtual Reading Club is run by the National Education Collaboration Trust’s National Reading Coalition, of which...
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...
