Step into something meaningful! Funky Socks Day returns on 12 September 2025 to raise R2.5 million for four life-changing charities supporting kids across Southern Africa.
South Africa (21 July 2025) – Pull up your brightest pair and get ready to strut with purpose. Funky Socks Day is back this September, and it’s all about making a difference from the ground up. This year, a few extra charities have been adopted, making the reach of Funky Socks Day even greater!
This joyful annual tradition invites South Africans (and now Namibians too!) to wear their wildest, wackiest socks on Friday, 12 September 2025, all in the name of helping children across the region live safer, healthier, and more hopeful lives.
For just R10, you can grab your official Funky Socks Day sticker from PNA and join thousands of others in stepping out for a cause that’s as fun as it is heartfelt. And behind the polka dots, stripes, and rainbow toes lie four remarkable organisations working to uplift some of the most vulnerable young people in Southern Africa.
Step 1: Build Hope, One Pencil Case at a Time
Breadline Africa is turning dreams into desks and playtime into progress. Funds raised from Funky Socks Day will help deliver 50 educational packs to children in under-resourced communities. These packs, filled with essentials like workbooks and pencil cases, may be a first for many kids, offering not just tools for school, but a powerful sense of pride and possibility.
“Through this partnership, we aim to bring learning to life. These funds will help us provide educational packs to 50 Early Childhood Development centres, enabling educators and bright young minds.” – Marion Wagner, CEO, Breadline Africa
Step 2: Comfort in the Toughest Moments
Matla a Bana walks alongside child survivors of abuse. Thanks to the campaign, 500 comfort packs will be handed out at police stations and hospitals, each one a gentle act of care. Inside: toiletries, snacks, a soft toy, and the message that someone sees them, believes them, and wants them to heal.
“Each comfort pack we distribute offers hope, dignity, and care to children who have faced unthinkable trauma. Thanks to Funky Socks Day, we can reach 500 more children this year.” – Monique Strydom, Founder, Matla a Bana
Step 3: Learning Through Laughter
Facing cancer is unimaginably tough, especially for kids. But CHOC’s iPad Learning Programme, powered by iSchoolAfrica, is helping young patients stay connected to school and joy during long hospital stays. Your sticker helps CHOC bring lessons, laughter, and love to the bedside of children bravely facing life-threatening illnesses.
CHOC is proud to stand alongside PNA once again. Every sticker sold brings us closer to providing essential digital learning tools for children undergoing treatment.” – Carl Queiros, CEO, CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation
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Step 4: Literacy Is Liberation
In far-flung corners of the country, Rally to Read is putting books in children’s hands, confidence in their hearts, and tools in their teachers’ kits. Your support helps deliver reading materials, parent packs, and vital teacher training that transforms futures, one page at a time.
“Literacy is freedom. With this support, we can expand teacher training and equip parents to support reading at home, especially in under-resourced communities.” – Pam Richardson, Chair, Rally to Read
So, whether you’re rocking flamingos or galaxy cats, flaming fire socks or mismatched masterpieces, let your feet do the talking this September. Funky Socks Day is proof that small things, like wearing silly socks, can lead to seriously good things.
The aim? Raise R2.5 million by 12 September 2025 to power long-term impact, and another R500,000 by early 2026. And this year, the campaign expands to Namibia too, where local schools will receive educational resource packs as part of the cross-border celebration of generosity.
Funky Socks Day is proudly hosted by PNA, but the heart of this campaign lies in the people who show up, socks out, and step forward for change.
Get your sticker. Wear your socks. Change a life.
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On behalf of the Breadline Africa team thank you Good Things Guy for sharing and supporting this fun campaign, now in its 4th cycle, benefitting not 1 but 4 great causes this year! For more information visit https://www.pna.co.za/funky-socks-day-2025/ and #RockYourFunkySocks for children on 12 September 🧦🧦🧦🧦