Who We Are
Project Literacy was established in 1973 to organise volunteers to teach basic literacy and sewing to domestic workers and gardeners living in urban areas.
Our mission is to deliver a wide range of education and training programmes to educationally disadvantaged adults, youth and children through adult education centres, teacher training, curriculum development and community outreach.
What We Do
Adult Education and Training
We train adult educators in a number of different fields. We award participants with the AET Practitioner qualification, certified by SETA. We also offer training programmes allowing participants to pursue various paths with our other programmes.
Early Childhood Education and Development
Run Home to Read is our ECD family literacy programme that aims to tackle the absence of ECD resources in poor and rural areas. It is a holistic programme that involves the whole community in supporting its children.
Our Impact
“If we are to ensure that within the next decade, every 10-year-old will be able to read for meaning, we will need to mobilise the entire nation behind a massive reading campaign. Early reading is the basic foundation that determines a child’s educational progress, through school, through higher education and into the workplace.”
– Cyril Ramaphosa, 2019 State of the Nation Address
Families Reached
Children
Communities
Champions Trained
*Statistics as of 2024
Keep up with us
Gift of Books for City Literacy Project
As part of celebrating World Book Day (WBD), the South African Book Development Council (SABDC), handed over 1700 books to the city's Project Literacy yesterday. The project is a national non-profit organisation specialising in a range of programmes. This includes...
The State of Literacy in South Africa and the Role of Project Literacy as we Commemorate our 50th Anniversary
In South Africa, a nation marked by its rich cultural diversity and historical struggles, the state of literacy has emerged as a pivotal concern. Addressing this challenge head-on is Project Literacy, an initiative that seeks to illuminate the path towards a more...