The Hanging Library Project: How it Started The Hanging Library Project started in 2022 through collaboration and funding from the HCI Foundation; you can read more about it here: https://www.biblionefsa.org.za/hanging-libraries-130-ecd-centres/. What started as an idea to ensure that our beneficiaries could Read More …
We are thrilled to announce our latest publishing project! With Jacana Media, we commissioned the publishing of Hector: A Boy, a Protest and the Photograph that Changed Apartheid. While we have managed post-Apartheid to give access to schooling to many children, we Read More …
This July and in celebration of Mandela Day 2023, help us raise R 50 000 to support Ikhwezi Lesizwe Primary School in Khayelitsha. Since 2022, we have been working with Ms Mayeye, the principal of Ikhwezi Lesizwe Primary, to help her Read More …
Biblionef South Africa and the Otto Foundation have a shared goal – creating life-long readers. Therefore, when the opportunity presented for us to partner with the Otto Foundation, we jumped at it! The Otto Foundation is an education-focused philanthropic organisation Read More …
In 2021, the HCI Foundation reached out to us to provide resources to Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres that they are currently supporting. What started as a conversation about how we could support their existing programme developed into a collaborative project Read More …
“While we have managed post-Apartheid to give access to schooling to many children, we have not changed much of the content of what children read. We have not enriched African languages with the necessary content for the African language readers. Read More …
Thanks to our donor, Allport Cargo Services, we donated a substantial number of books to Dr G.J. Joubert Primary School for their new school library. We are excited to share this project with you! Situated in Strand, Cape Town, the Read More …
South African women are silent no more on our roles in advancing our lives as artists, storytellers, writers, politicians, and educationists. We are thrilled to have commissioned the publication of a groundbreaking series of books with Jacana Media with funding from the National Read More …
And just like that, 2021 is nearing an end. On behalf of the Biblionef team, I would like to thank our donors and supporters for believing in our mission and helping us get through another challenging year. Our organisation cannot Read More …
As a Non-Profit Organization (NPO), it has become apparent that real change within the education sphere will only occur through deeper collaboration. In the first two quarters of this year, collaboration was the driving force for many of our projects. Read More …