A book donation drive is taking place for the !Xunkhwesa Combined School in Platfontein outside Kimberley. This school has learners from the San tribes !Xun and Khwe.
Most of the learners struggle with reading, writing, understanding, and expressing themselves in Afrikaans and English, as their home language is !Xun or Khwe.
The primary objective is to enrich the school’s language resources, thereby creating a culture of reading to improve educational outcomes. This will be done by providing fiction books in Afrikaans as first additional language, and English as second additional language – helping develop learners’ vocabulary, contributing to language development, and helping the learners to express themselves.
Stakeholders are the Northern Cape branch of the Library and Information Association of South Africa (Liasa), the Sol Plaatje University (SPU) Library and Information Services and the Kimberley public libraries.
Books can be dropped off at the latter, as well as the SPU library, until 11 July. All donations will be handed to the school on 18 July.
