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 …

Between 2016 and 2017, Biblionef SA undertook an intensive 2-year reading intervention with nine Primary Schools in Beaufort West. With funding from the SALI Trust, we carried out a mixed-impact study to assess the intervention’s effect on the teachers and the Read More …

Thanks to our donor, My School, we supported 10 Primary Schools with quality storybooks in their learners’ home language and English. We also planned to carry out two in-depth workshops with selected Foundation Phase teachers from the schools and provide Read More …

In partnership with Lerato’s Hope, The Bookery and our donors, Wings of Support and the Wilde Ganzen Foundation, we provided E.A. Janari Primary School with a makeover of their school library.  We donated 1 712 new fiction, non-fiction and reference books Read More …