Reading
We want children to meet books in which they can see their homes, names, languages and traditions, and to be supported as they learn to read with confidence.
CR Foundation NPC · South Africa
If this is our home, then where are our stories?
A home for reading, writing and African stories.
CR Foundation is a South African non-profit company. We work so that children and young people can grow up reading, writing, and recognising their own lives, languages and traditions on the page.
Why we exist
Club Readership was started in 2016 so that African authors could publish their writing, and so that African literature, traditions, customs and wisdom could be chronicled and preserved. The Foundation carries that purpose into non-profit work: a culture of reading, writing and academic triumph, especially among children and learners.
Writing
We want learners who have a story to tell to be mentored, edited and published, so that new African voices are not lost between the classroom and the bookshelf.
Academic triumph
We share the aim of promoting excellence in reading and writing as a foundation for learning, in keeping with the values of excellence, teamwork and community.
What we do
The Foundation’s work is organised around school-based reading and learner-author programmes. These pages describe that work honestly. We do not process payments or sell books on this website.
School-based reading
We work toward programmes that help schools, teachers and families put African stories in front of children, and that support a habit of reading in the classroom and at home.
Learner-author work
We work toward programmes that identify young writers, walk with them through writing and mentorship, and help them see their work into print, including with a launch that the school and community can share.
Who we are
CR Foundation NPC is registered with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. It is a separate legal entity from the Club Readership publishing house, and it is governed by a board of directors.
- Registered name
- CR Foundation NPC
- Registration number
- 2019/196125/08
- Enterprise number
- K2019196125
- Type
- Non-profit company (NPC), South Africa
- CIPC status
- In Business, as of 9 November 2026
- Registered office
- 85 Dube Street, Wattville, Benoni, 1501, South Africa
Directors, governance and our relationship with the publishing house
Help this work grow.
If you would like to volunteer, support the Foundation, or talk to us about a school or partnership, write to us. There is no checkout and no donation form on this site.