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Our Flagship Programmes

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Funda Sizwane

Strong Foundations, Brighter Futures. Every child deserves to learn in a language they understand. Funda Sizwane builds mother tongue literacy from Grade R, closing the gap before it widens.

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Run Home to Read

Turning Homes into Classrooms: Twenty years. Multiple provinces. Generations of readers. Run Home to Read proves that a book taken home each day can change a life, and a family, forever.

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The Big Blue Book Bus

Turning Pages into Stages No library? No problem. The Big Blue Book Bus brings books, stories, and imagination directly to communities that need them most.

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Where Literacy Comes to Life

At Project Literacy, we know that no two learners are the same and neither are the barriers standing between them and the page. That is why we do not take a one-size-fits-all approach. Our three flagship programmes each address a distinct need, a distinct community, and a distinct moment in a learner’s journey. Still, they share the same conviction: that literacy is a human right, and access to it should never depend on where you were born or what language you speak at home.

For over three decades, Project Literacy has worked at the intersection of education, community, and advocacy, building programmes that do not just teach people to read, but transform the way families, schools, and communities relate to learning. Our flagship programmes are the heartbeat of that work. Each one was born from a real gap, shaped by real communities, and proven through real results.

Whether we are working with a Grade R learner sounding out their first words in their mother tongue, a family building an evening reading habit together, or a child in a rural community who has never held a library book, we show up with the tools, the people, and the passion to make reading possible.

Why Flagship Programmes?

Literacy does not happen in isolation. It happens in classrooms, in kitchens, on stoeps, and on dirt roads. It happens when a teacher kneels beside a struggling reader and tries again, when a parent turns off the TV and opens a book, when a bus pulls up to a school that has never seen a library.

Our flagship programmes were designed to meet learners in all of those places and to address literacy not as a single problem, but as a layered challenge that requires layered solutions. Together, they form a continuum of support that reaches children from their earliest years in the Foundation Phase all the way through into family and community life.

Each programme is evidence-based, community-rooted, and built to scale and each one reflects Project Literacy’s belief that when you invest in a reader, you invest in a family, a community, and a future.