BY Nkosazana Ngwadla
In South Africa, far too many people still do not have access to libraries but those of us that do have a wonderful resource to draw on and to expose our children to. Research published by the National Literacy Trust in the UK shows that there is a definite link between children and young people who use libraries and good reading skills – young people who use the library are nearly twice as likely to be above-average readers than those who don’t.
Library practitioner, Dumsane Maphangela from Davel Public Library, Davel, Mpumalanga motivates children from his community to read for leisure through his work at the library and the two reading clubs that he runs using Nal’ibali’s reading materials.
Dumsane believes that children become more interested in reading for enjoyment when an adult is showing positive interest in their reading development.
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