Nal’ibali
DGMT and Primedia launch a massive billboard campaign to support early childhood development
DGMT and Primedia have recently launched one of the country’s largest-ever national outdoor media campaigns, demonstrating the power of early childhood development to change the future of South Africa. The billboard campaign will showcase three large-scale initiatives to prevent nutritional stunting and promote early learning and reading –namely Grow Great, SmartStart and Nal’ibali. It comes […]
Tags: ECD, growgreat, Nal'ibali, Resourceful Young Children, Smartstart
Posted on 11 Oct 2018
Three ingredients for great ECD centres and how to support them
We often talk about the importance of Early Childhood Development (ECD) as a key strategy to change South Africa. That is because children are the source of human capital. If we want to change the education system, grow the economy and create jobs, we must invest in young children. We are also not only talking to […]
Tags: ECD, ECD centres, Embrace, Nal'ibali, Resourceful Young Children
Posted on 24 Aug 2018
A million happy faces: Nal’ibali talks about the success of World Read Aloud Day 2018
We were so excited by the fact that Nal’ibali mobilised South Africans to read to 1 294 345 children on World Read Aloud Day this year, that we asked them to tell us how they did it: You have seen an 80% increase in the number of children who were read to on World Read […]
Tags: Literacy development, Nal'ibali, Reading for enjoyment
Posted on 16 Mar 2018
“Your child is also my child” – becoming part of an “army of adults” reading to children
First published by the Sowetan on 2 June 2016. We often hear about South Africa’s dismal education outcomes and low literacy rates. We have also been hearing that early literacy, reading for joy, and growing up around books can change the life trajectories of individuals and dramatically improve our society. Yet we hear much less […]
Tags: Creative Learners, Early literacy, Funda Leader, Nal'ibali, Reading for enjoyment
Posted on 8 Jun 2016
Why big business must get behind reading
This article was first published by Business Day Live on 25 November 2015. There is a business product with a proven rate of return in excess of one thousand percent in emerging markets. In South Africa, demand for it outstrips supply by at least two to one. Estimates are that the national GDP would be at […]
Tags: FunDza, Literacy development, Nal'ibali
Posted on 3 Dec 2015
Why listening to stories is part of learning to read
By Carole Bloch In his insightful book, The Rights of the Reader, Daniel Pennac comments: “When someone reads aloud, they raise you to the level of the book. They give you reading as a gift.” People who love reading know the precise value of that gift, and how to access it. But there are those […]
Tags: Creative Learners, language, literacy, Nal'ibali, reading, Reading for enjoyment
Posted on 22 Sep 2015
Brain food for growing minds
Why parents and teachers should rev up the read-aloud engine with their children and pupils First published in the Mail & Guardian, February 27 2015 In South Africa, most of the adults who spend time with children in their various capacities, including parents, teachers, caregivers, adopters and custodians, do not regularly read aloud to them. And even […]
Tags: Early literacy Development, Nal'ibali, Reading for enjoyment
Posted on 5 Mar 2015
Growing young readers and writers: underpinnings of the Nal’ibali National Reading-for-Enjoyment Campaign
The Nal’ibali Reading-for-Enjoyment Campaign aims to revive and deepen our appreciation of stories and narrative as being not only essential as the primary way we as human beings remember and organise our thoughts and conceptual worlds, but also the basis for critical thinking and meaningful education for all children. In this learning brief, the work of Nal’ibali […]
Tags: Creative young learners, Literacy development, Nal'ibali
Posted on 19 Feb 2015
Language development to reshape the national economy
This article by DGMT CEO, David Harrison, was first published in the City Press on the 19th of October 2014. What you do when you’ve stared at the same problem for years and still can’t figure out how to solve it? You frame it differently. See it through someone else’s eyes. So the next time […]
Tags: Creative Learners, Early literacy Development, Nal'ibali
Posted on 24 Oct 2014
Nal’ibali launches ‘Story Power. Bring it home.’ billboard campaign
Nal’ibali—the national reading-for-enjoyment campaign, launched a new billboard campaign to generate awareness and discussion around the power of stories to spark all children’s potential. Building on the simple logic that a well-established culture of reading can be a real game-changer for education in South Africa, the campaign seeks to inspire and motivate parents and caregivers […]
Tags: Creative Learners, Nal'ibali
Posted on 1 Oct 2014
