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#SLAM4URLIFE wants our youth’s Poetry, Music, Art and Tiktoks!
MEDIA STATEMENT Co-ordinated by the Western Cape Government Department of Cultural Affairs and Sports Department, in partnership with Community Chest, FunDza Literacy Trust and Assitej South Africa, the #Slam4urLife competition calls on young people to respond...
NACCW Uses WhatsApp with Reading Groups
When lockdown struck, we knew it was going to be very difficult for our reading group beneficiaries to keep on with their work. So we were excited to hear from our partner, the National Association of Child Care Workers (NACCW), that some of their reading group...
Experimenting with a WhatsApp webinar – thanks Activate!
Data and its handsome cost has and continues to be the game-changer where access to online information is concerned. The poorest of the poor are left behind due to the lack of data, while those who are able to access online platforms move ahead. So, following the...
Liberating the mind with Lockdown Live!
Since the beginning of lockdown, FunDza has been working hard to be responsive to its online readers and writers by providing access to interesting and relevant content. FunDza has not only been commissioning additional articles and blogs that speak to issues that...
Supporting our writers through social media
Although our mobi site is the place where we have most of our content, we are also active on WhatsApp and Facebook, using these platforms to share and promote a wealth of content from stories and blogs to online courses, and to encourage FunDza Fanz to send in their...
Celebrate World Book Day with FunDza
PRESS RELEASE In celebration of World Book Day on 23 April, FunDza Literacy Trust, through its fundza.mobi online library for teens and young adults, is highlighting its most popular stories from the last few years. Every day more than 15,000 readers enjoy FunDza’s...
Soul Food from FunDza!
When Gift of the Givers asked us if we could supply them with flyers about FunDza to go out with food parcels, it got us thinking about how we could get other reading material to young people in lockdown… And that’s how ‘Soul Food from FunDza’ was born. We took four...
Meet the winners of the Human Rights Writing Challenge!
To celebrate Human Rights Day on 21 March, FunDza hosted a special writing challenge through its WhatsApp Business account. There were 90 entrants and ten lucky winners who each got a little bit of airtime to make their lockdown a little more data-fun! For the Human...
FunDza: A FIRST RESPONDER OF STORIES
PRESS RELEASE If books and stories were life-giving goods (and they certainly feed the soul) then the FunDza Literacy Trust would be a first-responder. Its fundza.mobi ‘library on a phone’ is responsive,...
Move up with the Majolas and WIN big!
Press Release Financial services provider Metropolitan is sponsoring a financial literacy short course hosted on FunDza, an online literacy portal dedicated to helping South Africans better their reading, writing and learning skills. The course will run from 9 April...
Something for the family
A recommendation by Mignon Hardie, the head of the FunDza Literacy Trust, a nonprofit working to promote reading for pleasure and writing for meaning among teens and young adults. We run several programmes, but our largest and currently most active in the...
A WhatsApp Writing Challenge for Human Rights Day
It was Human Rights Day on Saturday 21 March, and what better way for young people to commemorate it in these difficult times when they are stuck at home than to enter an online writing challenge launched by FunDza Literacy Trust? FunDza's WhatsApp channel allows...