Volunteers promote the "One school, one library, one librarian" campaign. From EE's Facebook page
More than 90% of public schools and more than 4.5 million learners in South Africa do not have a functioning school library.
Equal Education (EE), a community and membership-based organisation engaged in activism for improving South African schools, aims to change this by marching to Parliament on 21 March 2010.
They will hand over a petition to the government which asks for a library to be established at every school, a trained full-time librarian to be employed, and at least three books to be made available for every learner.
Equal Education already has the support of Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Sindiwe Magona and Zackie Achmat, but they also need our help.
They list various ways in which ordinary citizens can help their cause:
- Donate money
- Spread the word through Facebook, Twitter and Mxit
- Join the task team meeting and volunteer your time
- Sign the petition by clicking here
- Support the EE book collection drive
This blog post, and our related Facebook & Twitter posts, is Creative Consulting & Development Works‘ way of helping.
Just like Equal Education, we believe “reading is the foundation of all eduction” and that this is “a matter of freedom justice and equality”, especially after we researched and compiled a consolidated report on the Western Cape Education Department Family Literacy Project Pilot.
For more information on Equal Education, read our previous blog post on the organisation here, or visit their website.
