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I started Back 2 School as an initiative that provides monthly free workshops whereby we invite guest speakers to educate us about the commercial side of art, and how we can go about making money out of the art we create,\u201d Aphiwe explained when asked about the reason for starting the NPO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says several young artists from across Cape Town are involved in the NPO with some of the board members living in Khayelitsha, Table View, Paarl and Langa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the projects that they are currently undertaking in partnership with the Sinako Reading Club, is collecting books for a library in the Winnie Mandela Township in Despatch which is currently being built. So far, the organisation has managed to collect close to 1 000 books, thanks to donations. They also collected books from a bin at the Edgemead Library recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey were going to throw them away. 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