Theme of the Month

A Reading Nation is a Leading Nation

Leading countries of the world pride themselves on the promotion of a culture of reading. A society of adept and avid readers is regarded as a great, mature resource, and research supports this view. A life-long love of reading most often starts at home. However, poverty stands in the way of millions of South Africans being literate families. One of the greatest hindrances to the development of a culture of reading in South Africa is that so many of our people simply do not have access to books. This unfairly afflicts the current generations of children and youth, and ultimately compromises the social and economic future of our nation. We have communities without libraries, schools without storybooks and parents without the skills to read to their children. However, we can change this...

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Laugh The Beloved Country - Harvey Tyson & James Clarke R175-00

Archbishop Tutu commented ' I could not stop laughing from the very first moment I started reading this manuscript'. This is an eclectic collection of the most entertaining writers of English-language humour in South Africa in the last 200 years. South Africa - boiling pot if ever there was one - has produced an unusual number and a cultural variety of humour, from bitter satire to wild farce; from sharp wit to gentle good humour all found in this very funny book.

The Healer Inside You - David Patient and Neil Orr R160-00

How do some people with cancer manage to send it into remission? How do a few people with AIDS manage to survive with it for decades, whereas most of its victims die? Why do survivors of chronic illnesses tend to be rebels? Authors Neil Orr and David Patient believe your health has much to do with your mental attitude, and have developed a healing programme based on psychoneuroimmunolgy, or PNI, which will enable you to strengthen your immune system and send illness packing or at least keep it cowering in a corner.

Book of Poems R75-00

This month, you could support the second phase of a heart-warming Teachers Dream through the purchase of "Thebuwa, Poems from NDofaya Lamula Jubilee High School, Soweto." This ambitious and extraordinary anthology harbours the talents of some special Grade 9 to 12 learners between its covers. Language teacher, Robert Maungedzo launched and sustained a poetry project at this under-resourced school for three years. Funds raised by the sale of this book through www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za will go towards funding Robert's next dream - to take these writers-of-our-future to Cape Town in 2006 to present their stunning work at the National Convention.

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helptoread is a new volunteer reading help programme with a project in Lavender Hill in the Western Cape. The organisation is a branch of the well-established UK-based Moss Educational Fund that trains and co-ordinates volunteers who help disadvantaged children who struggle to read. Trained volunteers help the same child twice a week for one year, so children get priceless, long term, one-on-one care and support. Each volunteer has a box full of every type of book, from African Tales to Fairy tales, sticker books to pop-up books, poetry, puzzles, jokes, and games too, and children can choose to spend the half hour however they like. Children quickly find a book they love and learn to love reading. You can support helptoread with donations of money, books or your time. If you're reading this, and you have some spare time, then help a child read. You'll change their life, forever.
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Wishlists

Giving that makes a positive difference is not only about money. This month we have a number of Causes who can make great use of your 'previously-loved' books. To view our Wishlists of the Month
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Teachers Dream

Story Steps
You can help to make Jennifer Ann Hill’s dream come true. She is an educator at Pinelands Primary with a desire to start a lending library of correctly graded books which learners can join. Parents would be involved – those who can afford it would pay a small joining and borrowing fee and others will be subsidized. This project will be of immense value to learners; not only to those who are struggling with reading, but to those who wish to improve themselves. Jennifer says: "An ability to read well results in a child who is brimming with self confidence, has good self-esteem, is able to develop an inquiring mind, possesses an ever-expanding vocabulary, has powers of deduction, comprehension and inference."
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