by Nadeema Musthan | Sep 6, 2019 | Our News
PRESS RELEASE: FunDza Literacy Trust has partnered with Turn.io to launch FunDza on WhatsApp to get its already popular reading content into the hands of thousands of new readers. FunDza on WhatsApp engages with young South Africans on the country’s most popular...
by Team Fundza | Oct 2, 2018 | Our News
Activate! Change Drivers is a growing network of approximately 3,000 young leaders across South Africa who are being equipped with the skills to respond to challenges in our society. The young people involved in this movement aim to ensure that the marginalised,...
by Team Fundza | Jul 17, 2018 | Our News
On the 12 July, the FunDza team was on the airwaves on Bush Radio 89.5 FM, to speak at length about the Literacy Fun Walk that will take place in Khayelitsha’s Khulani Library to Luhlaza High School. At the helm of the literacy fun walk is the goal of promoting...
by Team Fundza | Mar 28, 2018 | Our News
The following blog gives a taste of one of the Reading for Enjoyment sessions that we run with False Bay College students at the Khayelitsha and Fish Hoek campuses. The campaign aims to get students excited about reading (and writing) for pleasure. Here’s...
by Team Fundza | Oct 27, 2017 | Our News
Another year of Reading for Enjoyment (RFE) comes to an end at both Khayelitsha and Fish Hoek campuses of False Bay College (FBC). It feels like we have learnt and grown a lot over the three years of this campaign to date and have loved being in partnership with FBC...
by Team Fundza | Sep 5, 2016 | Our News
Cupcakes and yellow chips in the OLC (Open Learning Centre). Now that is something one can expect students to sink their teeth into. A book, on the other hand? Maybe not so much. Yet, here we are with plates stack high celebrating students who spent the year reading....
by Team Fundza | Jul 8, 2016 | Our News
Back in April FunDza had a strategy session about where we have come from and where we are going. We strategised, bonded and thought and thought. And we felt. Our hearts spoke of the shifts that we as South Africans need to make in order to help develop the...
by Team Fundza | Jun 7, 2016 | Our News
For the second year, FunDza brought False Bay College students involved in the Reading for Enjoyment Campaign to the Franschhoek Literary Festival (FLF). Last year we were accompanied by 15 eager and ready-to-learn students from the Fish Hoek Campus. This year on –...
by Team Fundza | Feb 12, 2016 | Our News
FunDza has been asked to come back to the False Bay College Fish Hoek Campus for another year of wowing the students with stories and activities that help dispel the myth that reading is boring! Thanks to the success of the Reading for Enjoyment campaign last year, we...
by Team Fundza | Jun 29, 2015 | Our News
Abongile Xinti is a 26 year old IT student at False Bay College and shares his recently discovered passion for reading with us. He started reading in 2012 and have only read about ten books to date. So, what made him start reading? “I’m interested now to...
