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\u201cA literate, educated society is a safer, healthier, and more prosperous society.”<\/p>\n

So says Imraan Noorbhai, Standard Bank\u2019s provincial head in KZN.<\/p>\n

It is with this philosophy in mind that the bank has launched its literacy project \u2013 \u201cEvery Child Must Read\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to a UN Development Programme literacy survey, South Africa lags behind other African countries like Zimbabwe, Namibia, Equatorial Guinea, Lesotho and Libya, in spite of its huge investment in education over the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

Sobering figures indeed.<\/p>\n

Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, called on South Africans to make us a nation of readers in 2015. And so the Department of Basic Education (DBE) launched the One Thousand School Libraries campaign \u2013 1 000 libraries, reading corners or container libraries are to be built or refurbished to ensure that by 2019 every school has access to adequate reading material, especially to encourage recreational reading.<\/p>\n

Of course, government cannot accomplish it all by itself. So here is where business steps in to help in attaining these goals.<\/p>\n

Noorbhai says: \u201cMany KZN learners come from communities which do not have libraries and it is shown that access to libraries improves learner performance and increases their chances of success. Without proper resources there can be no equity in education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Standard Bank will provide mobile libraries to serve schools located close to their major branches in KZN \u2013 namely the Newcastle, Pietermaritzburg, Richards Bay, Durban\/Westville, Phoenix \/uMhlanga and Chatsworth\/Pinetown areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is envisaged that the introduction of these mobile libraries to the previously disadvantaged schools will go a long way towards improving the literacy rate in our province,\u201d says Noorbhai.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA literate, educated society is a safer, healthier, and more prosperous society.” So says Imraan Noorbhai, Standard Bank\u2019s provincial head in KZN. It is with this philosophy in mind that the bank has launched its literacy project \u2013 \u201cEvery Child Must Read\u201d. According to a UN Development Programme literacy survey,…<\/p>\n

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