Thuto Lesedi Foundation was founded in 2004 in Mokopane, in Limpopo Province, by Karabo Mothoa and a group of young people. When Karabo shared his concept with these young people, to start an education movement that was geared towards children and youth in rural areas, they all became excited and ran with the idea. Twenty years later, the foundation is now headquartered in Pretoria, in Gauteng Province, and has a national footprint on its horizon. Thuto Lesedi Foundation was registered as non-profit organisation with the Department of Social Development in 2005 and as a non-profit company with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission of South Africa in 2024.
OUR VISION
Thuto-Lesedi Foundation aims to become the number one educational and literary movement in South Africa, with children and youth at heart, where all the authors we work with are enabled to reach their full writing potential and excel in the business education every writer needs.
OUR MISSION is linked with our vision, which is resilient, and is aligned to SDG4 as captured in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education. Our mission declares our purpose as a Foundation, as well as what we do, and why:
- We will organize and facilitate writing, publishing, and book sales workshops for children and youth. We will do this through our available resources, writers’ circle, strategic partnerships, competitions, book clubs, and calls for submissions. Our aim is to inspire children and young people to build a culture of reading and writing.
- We will join hands with the United Nations in helping achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education. Ours is to ensure that our local authors obtain quality writing education, from the foundation phase in order to improve people’s lives and sustainable development.
- We will connect local authors with the world through books that are traditionally and digitally published. We aim to provide up-to-date publishing solutions to the market we serve.
- We will transform lives as we connect our local storytellers with readers across Africa and the international markets for a better future, using affordable and easy-to-use multi-product and service offerings.
- We will create value for our benefactors as we make a difference through dedicated leadership, a continuously trained team, and the optimal use of the latest technology.
Our Team
Karabo Mothoa
Founder, CEO, and Grant CoordinatorE: info@thutolesedi.org M: +27814144794
Tshifhiwa Mothoa
Operations Manager and CFOE: info@thutolesedi.org M: +27697870022
Ndivhuwo Kutama
Head of PeopleE: info@thutolesedi.org M: +27697870022