FOLLOW UP: Children’s books find homes #CaxtonCares
The donations of children's books were handed over to the Reading Gogos, The Salvation Army and Almond Tree Baby Home, with the remaining books going to Friends of the Benoni Library in due course.
The City Times Children’s Book Drive was well supported last month.
It formed part of a Caxton Cares initiative to promote a love of reading and was also in support of the National Book Week, which ran from September 2 to 8.
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Kathy Cromer-Wilson and Viv Ridyard, two of Benoni’s Reading Gogos, were thrilled to receive the donation and explained the books will be catalogued at the Daveyton Library and then put on the Ekufundzeni Mobile Library, which services 32 schools in Daveyton, Wattville and Etwatwa.
“It is wonderful to share the joy of reading with children and we thank the City Times and the public of Benoni for this unexpected windfall,” Kathy said.
“We are urgently in need of more Reading Gogos, however, and appeal to anyone, of any age, who has a love for reading and the patience to help share this with children in underprivileged areas, to get in touch with us.
“The work is voluntary and very rewarding. We are involved in a lot of wonderful initiatives to promote literacy in the youth. For example, we will be involved in a storytelling and readathon festival at Chief Luthuli School this weekend.”
