by Team Fundza | Jun 30, 2020 | Our News |
FunDza believes that the ability to read and write transforms lives. South Africa is a book-poor and reading-poor country – we exist to change that. To do this we provide teens and young adults with access to high-interest exciting reading content that speaks to their...
by Nadeema Musthan | Feb 26, 2019 | Our News
At FunDza we are very excited about our new ‘funzine’ for reading clubs – a magazine-book publication full of poems, stories, articles and plays that have been enjoyed on the Fundza mobi site. It is different from our other anthologies, not only in size, but also in...
by Team Fundza | Jan 29, 2019 | Our News |
The new year started with a bang, and one of our top priorities was to get Team FunDza out of the office and into the classroom… to introduce learners to our popular and practical ‘Writing Good Essays’ workshop. There are already a number of...
by Nadeema Musthan | Aug 27, 2018 | Our News
FunDza has been a partner of the YearBeyond programme since inception. YearBeyond (YEBO) uses volunteers to run after-school programmes in English and Maths in Western Cape schools. FunDza has supplied the English material for their high school programme running in...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jul 27, 2018 | Our News
We often get asked by our Family beneficiary groups to host workshops to support them to run their reading groups. Being based in the Western Cape, it is easier to provide training to the groups that are close by but it is far harder for us to do this with groups that...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 8, 2018 | Our News
When we started FunDza in 2011, we had big dreams… but we had no idea that we would grow so well and fast that these initial goals would be eclipsed by our seventh birthday! So, the plan of the May strategy workshops was to dream big and challenge ourselves to set a...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jan 30, 2018 | Our News
We know that we live in changing and challenging times. As a small organisation we have little impact on the macro environmental changes in our country, and indeed the world. But we do have control over our internal structure, and how we respond to these shifts and...
by Team Fundza | Sep 5, 2017 | Our News
Fellow literacy NGO Help2read works with primary school children. Besides volunteers who read with the children on an individual basis, they also have literacy facilitators who spend a year working in schools using their programme. FunDza ran a workshop for 11 of...
by Team Fundza | Aug 29, 2017 | Our News
Meet Kauthar! FunDza’s new intern. We asked Kauthar to introduce herself to us – who is she and why she wants to be at FunDza! This is her story: *** My name is Kauthar Gool, a final-year Journalism student at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) who is...
by Nadeema Musthan | Mar 8, 2017 | Our News
FunDza was invited to run a workshop for library assistants in Gauteng about how they can use the Harmony High books, and our It Your Right! pocket booklets, to start reading clubs in local libraries. So on the 24 February I ran a day’s workshop in the rather dim...
