Wednesday 19 June 2013

Mamelodi Book Drive

The Humanities Faculty at the University of Pretoria held a book drive in Mamelodi on the 1st of June 2013. The  book drive was inspired by the Nelson Mandela Day Project which encourages people to give 67 minutes of their time to charity. This in commemoration of the 67 years that Mandela devoted to serving his community and country.

The purpose of the book drive is to collect and distribute books to three primary schools in Mamelodi: Mogale Primary School, Nwa Vangani Primary School and Dr IM Monare Primary School.

This year Ms Leti Kleyn, a Academic Literacy lecturer at UP, hoped to establish three reading rooms at the primary schools which are to benefit from the book drive.

In the video below we have a few people associated with the book drive initiative share their views on the importance of reading.

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