by Nadeema Musthan | Jul 20, 2020 | Our News
Last year’s Moving Up with the Majolas competition was so successful that this year we had a re-run! So on 9 April 2020, FunDza relaunched the ‘Moving Up with the Majolas’ course competition, in partnership with the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation. Through the...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 28, 2020 | Our News
FunDza is proud to have been part of an incredible team of people working in the Covid-19 ECD and Schooling Group who pooled knowledge and resources to create this useful guide for caregivers that provides practical and caring tips for creating a supportive learning...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 27, 2020 | Our News
All of us at FunDza were excited to have received a grant from the National Arts Council to run our ‘Me With You’ writing workshop and mentorship project this year. The project was envisaged as two sets of face-to-face special writing workshops in Cape Town and Durban...
by Nadeema Musthan | Apr 24, 2020 | Our News
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...
by Nadeema Musthan | Apr 22, 2020 | Our News
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...
by Nadeema Musthan | Apr 15, 2020 | Our News
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...
by Team Fundza | Nov 29, 2019 | Our News
On 3 October 2019, FunDza launched the ‘Moving Up with the Majolas’ course competition, in partnership with the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation. Through the course competition, participants were introduced to the Majola family who were facing a range of difficult...
by Nadeema Musthan | Nov 15, 2019 | Our News
Over the years FunDza has been experimenting with different ways of developing young writers – from running two-hour workshops, to online tips and resources, to intensive writing mentorships. Each of these types of interventions has pros and cons. Last year...
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by Nadeema Musthan | Aug 21, 2019 | Our News
I was on a trip to PE to visit the schools and teachers involved in the PROTEC/TELKOM Foundation project we are working on. I was there on a Saturday morning, waiting for a meeting, and so I started talking to the children who were in the computer lab. One young boy...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 21, 2019 | Our News
We are working on an exciting new project with the National Association of Child Care Workers (NACCW). For one of their interventions, the NACCW have two field-workers at eight high schools in KZN where they support learners with psycho-social issues and interact with...
