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Meet the winners of the NRC Readathon!
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...
Welcoming the incoming director
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...
Calling all Grade 7-9 bookworms!
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...
Piloting a course for tertiary success
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...
Partnering with JnJ’s DREAMS Thina Abantu Abasha project
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 & Johnson,...
Meet the 2021 Fantastic FunDza Fanz winners!
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...
FunDza partners with President’s Virtual Reading Club
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 FunDza is...
Presentations and celebrations at LITASA 2021!
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 they are...
Calling all entrepreneurs!
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...
At FunDza, Content is Queen
By Marché Arends, Deputy Content Manager Much of what we do at FunDza is content creation. Through our weekly blogs like Mindspace, Did You Know and Inspiring Tomorrow we hope to inform, inspire and entertain our readers. Written and researched by our internal team of...
The search is on… for a new director!
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 energy for...
Winning the Donor’s Den pitch
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...