Celebrate Youth Day by thinking about all the ways that you can make your greatness blossom. Youth Day is a public holiday celebrated on...

The Otto Foundation is celebrating library week with the launch of a reading journal for children called "The Reading Journey: A Journal...

Background: The Otto Foundation is an education-focussed philanthropic organisation established in 2016. The Foundation’s core mission is...

A blog post for children on the theme of intentional living.

The Otto Foundation has been streamlining its projects and funding to focus on the design of relational, educational, social and literary...

The Otto Foundation Team is proud to introduce our first publication! The Reading Journey: A journal for your literary adventures....

Our team's thoughts on womanhood and the women that have influenced, motivated, encouraged, inspired, and emboldened us. As South Africa...

Madiba challenged us to achieve the impossible. On Mandela Day we are reflecting on our role in realising Madiba's vision for South Africa.

The tapestry of the South African story is woven from many threads. When we reflect on our country’s history the threads of oppression,...

As part of our effort to spark an interest in books and stories, and to foster a love of reading, Otto Foundation libraries host monthly...

2 April is International Children's Book Day! International Children’s Book Day has been celebrated since 1967 on the birthday of the...

Otto Foundation CEO, Zephne Ladbrook, writes: "It takes a dedicated project manager and a team of artisans to construct a library. But it...

Notes on how we are cancelling a festival and starting a movement.

Our vision for a new Liyabona Library at Holy Cross Primary is coming to life thanks to donor support. Read more on our progress here...

Holy Cross Primary in District Six and a few of their author and NGO friends, are appealing to Capetonians to support their fundraising...

In 2018 the Otto Foundation and the Click Foundation collaborated to launch a new computer centre for the learners at Zonnebloem - a...

The Otto Foundation and its children's library at Zonnebloem, the Sunflower Learning Centre, hosted a successful Book Dash event in Cape...