Reedville Reading Club keeps children busy

Springs – The Reedville Reading Club, which operates from the Sabbath Church in Fulcrum, intends to get children reading.

Ntombi Molefe who runs the club with five other facilitators says the club has been well received by their 40 learners and their parents.

She says: “One mother has informed us that her child who had problems at school has started showing improvement in her school work.”

The club started operating on April 1, 2018, and started after Molefe, who helps out at a feeding scheme in Mkhancwa, realised she wanted to feed the minds of the children in addition to their bodies.

Reedville Reading Club relies on the mobile library services on Saturdays where Molefe uses her personal library card to take books out for their meetings, which are held weekly from Monday to Thursday at 3pm until 5pm.

While two of the learners’ parents have managed to get library cards for them, the majority of the learners do not have library cards as their parents are not available to have them made and the learners cannot get them on their own.

Efforts are being made to get parents to the KwaThema Library to make cards for the learners to use at the mobile library.

The Reedville Reading Club will be hosting a child safety event where they will be encouraging children to stay off the streets and read instead.

This event, on December 14, comes after the annual 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children and aims to raise awareness on the recent surge of kidnappings in the country.

The event will be held at the Sabbath Church on 46 Vienna Lane in Fulcrum and will begin at 10am.