Staff

The Family Literacy Project is a registered Section 21 Company with a board of directors that meets as a management team once a quarter:

Jenny Aitchison (Subject Librarian (retired), University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Thoko Bhedla (ABET specialist, national Department of Education)
Wilna Botha (Director, Media in Education Trust)
Pat Dean (Director, Operation Upgrade)
Snoeks Desmond (ECD Consultant and former director of Family Literacy Project)
Sbongile Mtungwa (Director, Women’s Leadership and Training Programme – Emthonjeni)
Mimi Kunene (ECD specialist , KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education)
Lynn van der Elst (Director, Media in Education Trust)

FLP’s current team members are:
Director: Lynn Stefano (joined 2006).

Co-ordinators: Florence Molefe, Zimbili Dlamini and Phumzile Zikode (joined 2000).

Facilitators: Joyce Ndlovu (joined 2005), Tholakele Mkhize (joined 2006), and Zenzile Shelembe (joined 2008).

Consultants: Chris Gibson (Child health specialist) and Jill Frow (Staff development and monitoring) and Norma Russell (Libraries) complement the team.

From late 2000 the staff has included Snoeks Desmond (Director from 2000-2007), Pierre Horn (Project co-ordinator), and facilitators Fiselani Linda, Londi Gambu, and Nelly Shezi. Two Peace Corps (USA) volunteers, Leanne Wolff and Safi Ahmed, joined us in October 2005 for two years. Others who have been part of the team at times from 2000 – 2005 are Thoko Dlamini, S’bongile Madiba, Nonzuzo Mbanjwa, Nomusa Ndlovu, Ceboh Mtolo, Zama Mncwabe, Nathi Khanyile, Xolly Mtolo and Thuli Ngcobo.

Courses completed by our facilitators:
Mother Tongue Adult Literacy Facilitation: Operation Upgrade
English Second Language Facilitation: Operation Upgrade
REFLECT training and REFLECT refresher training
STAR HIV+AIDS training
REFLECT unit writing workshop
HIV/Aids counselling course arranged by Operation Upgrade
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
Home based care course arranged by Operation Upgrade
Play Therapy for bereaved children by Rob Smetherton Bereavement Trust
Who Am I? (Personality and Human Relations course)
Psycho-Social care of young children run by RESSPI and attended by Zimbili Dlamini
Parenting Course run by TREE and attended by Florence Molefe
Make and Play workshop run by Children’s Rights Centre
Maths and Science for ECD through Arts and Culture
Idasa advocacy training attended by Zimbili Dlamini
Dancing Pencils writing workshop
Paraffin Safety in the home
Foundation course in children’s rights run by the Children’s Rights Centre attended by Joyce Ndlovu and Nathi Khanyile