by Asithandile Tyulu | Mar 31, 2022 | Our News
Dorothy Dyer Every year, the Library of Congress awards literacy prizes to organisations in the US and internationally in recognition of their work. We were delighted that in 2021 FunDza was an honoree (a euphemism for ‘runner-up’!) and received 5000 dollars prize...
by Nadeema Musthan | Dec 14, 2021 | Our News
On 17 March 2021, FunDza hosted it’s first introductory workshop for 18 young people selected to be the inaugural members of the FunDza Fellowship programme. The plan: to take this group on an exciting writing journey that we hoped would inform, challenge and...
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 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 | Sep 11, 2021 | Our News
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...
by Team Fundza | Sep 11, 2021 | Our News
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...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 14, 2021 | Our News
We know from our annual survey that many of our readers – 40% in fact – are unemployed and looking for work. With this in mind, we approached Harambee, an organisation working to support youth in this area, to help us develop a course that would be helpful to them. It...
by Nadeema Musthan | Apr 13, 2021 | Our News |
FunDza readers first came to know and love the Majola family when they met them in ‘Moving up with the Majolas’ a financial literacy project that FunDza ran at the end of 2019 and again in early 2020 with the support of the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation. At the...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 28, 2020 | Our News
FunDza believes in the power of story in engaging readers with issues that affect them and their communities. It also believes that knowledge is power. The combination of fictional stories with informative resource material that unpacks the issues in the stories is a...
