A well of wisdom brought to Tembisa school children

Global Forum of Women Entrepreneurs and Marhulana Primary School joined hands in the expansion of the Well of Wisdom International Book Club (WWIBC) at Khula Sizwe Primary School on February 23.

The launch covered Sedibeng Primary School, Khula Sizwe Primary and Marhulana Primary.

The club’s initial launch was at Marhulana in August 2018. Amelia Mathebula, Global Forum of Women Entrepreneurs (GFWE) national director of projects, said this initiative started with the aim to build a reading society.

“We want to prepare them to be future leaders and be effective communicators and readers,” said Mathebula.

Dr Pearl Kupe, international president of GFWE, said thanks to her mother making her read at least two books a week, she can now make a change.

“Today I am able to reach out and empower others to be educated as well. We plant the seed of reading in these children in order for them to grow.

“We provide food for about 1 200 children in Alexandra every day, in one country we took 1 000 children back to school and we plan a mobile eye-testing clinic for children to receive free spectacles,” added Kupe.

Bishop Sakhele Makhubo said: “I am passionate about the future of our children. We complain that our learners are fighting with the teachers, but we do nothing. Churches need to support children and schools by providing books and food on Saturdays.”

Head of department of languages at Marhulana Primary Hlungwani Manghabia said the initiative started at Marhulana and is now spreading to other schools in the section.

“The book club helps children to read and write and it makes it easier to work with parents. Because of the book club at our school, our results have changed magnificently. We have reached a 92 per cent pass rate.”

Louisa Maiyane Matshidiso, an educator at Sedibeng Primary, said it was their first time being in partnership with WWIBC.

“We hope it will help out children a lot with reading and learning,” said Maiyane.