Taking up the Challenge!

Taking up the Challenge!

Since March 2020 (the beginning of our financial year) FunDza has run six writing challenges aimed at getting our ‘FunDza Fanz’ writers to pick up pen and paper and practise their writing skills. The writing challenges have been run on FunDza’s WhatsApp...
What’s up on WhatsApp?!

What’s up on WhatsApp?!

During lockdown it was interesting to note that many of our partner organisations who started working online felt more comfortable using our WhatsApp site rather than our mobi site. This was probably because WhatsApp became such a popular group space, with...
NACCW Uses WhatsApp with Reading Groups

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...
Supporting our writers through social media

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...
Taming the Whatsapp monster

Taming the Whatsapp monster

For my final year journalism studies course at CPUT, whilst technically still a student, I have been working at FunDza as part of a required six month internship. My time at FunDza has been nothing short of amazing.   I have been a part of the FunDza staff for...
FunDza launches a WhatsApp group

FunDza launches a WhatsApp group

FunDza is experimenting with ways to use popular mobile technology to better engage with its readers. We know that many of our readers are on WhatsApp and wanted to find a way to use this social media tool to increase interaction and provide an alternative feedback...