New Chapters: 10 Years of Rally to Read - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0620380845 ISBN 13: 9780620380843

Publisher: McCarthy, 2007

Synopsis

New chapters is a celebration of tangible hope in South Africa u acknowledging the success of the first ten years of this inspiring development project, Rally to read. This South African story of caring, collaboration, hope and partnership has touched the lives of many different communities. This title presents an illustrated off-road journey through the diverse landscape of our countryside, focussing on the personal delivery of book libraries and the provision of sustained teacher training to our rural primary schools. Extreme poverty and low literacy levels present the greatest challenge to primary education in these far-flung areas. Motivated by these dire needs, South African private sector sponsors and their employees and families have conducted rallies over the last ten years into some of the most remote regions of our country, using hundreds of off-road vehicles, to deliver books and kick-start primary school literacy programmes, in the process reaching over 35,000 learners per annum. As readers explore the evocative images and insightful words of this special publication, they begin to understand that Rally to read is about things that move the human spirit u about giving,

Edition details

• Publisher: McCarthy
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0620380845
• ISBN 13: 9780620380843
• Binding: Paperback