In September our director, Lynn Stefano received the Paul Harris Fellow Award from Rotary Foundation, for exemplary work in promoting literacy among underprivileged communities in rural areas.

We have presented our work at various conferences and events in 2011: - The BALID/British Council/PRAESA Common goals, shared purpose conference 24-25 January - REading campaign meeting hosted by the…

In November 14 members from Golang Kulani (GK) in Limpopo visited our FLP sites around Underberg and Centocow to learn about our home visiting programme. Zimbili Dlamini and Florence Molefe…

The end-of-year event held on 10 December from 10h00 to 13h30 was a wonderful celebration of FLP’s work amongst the communities whom it serves. The Bulwer Community Hall was packed…

This week we received 900 gifts for children who participate in our programmes - our thanks to Rotary and East Coast Radio's Toy Story campaign which involves the public in…

On 18 and 19 Ocotober, Zimbili Dlamini, Snoeks Desmond and Lynn Stefano will attend the ELRU ECD Heritage event to be held in Cape Town. We'll join Bernard van Leer…

Phumy Zikode, our adult literacy coordinator, is attending a Reflect Monitoring and Evaluation workshop in Zimbabwe from 14 to 23 October. The workshop is sponsored by dvv international, and brings…

FLP's facilitators are reporting that children are arriving at the community libraries and facilitators' homes daily to play, read and learn while schools are closed during the public service strike.…

In July we started working in four new villages in the Sisonke District: LuPhongolo and Bovini in Mzimkulu and Nkumba and Sun City near Bulwer in Ingwe. The facilitators, chosen…

All our old information will be available on our new website within the next few weeks. We have added pages to acknowledge our donors and to provide details for you…