Township Stories and Realities - Gogo Storytime

 

This week we launch Gogo Storytime: elders reading and telling stories to children at the reading corner, every week.

Mam' Thandi has agreed to lead the first session, and two more gogos from her street have said they'll join her. 

What we still need: children's books in Sesotho, isiZulu, and Setswana; a few sturdy chairs that don't wobble; and one or two younger volunteers to help set up and walk the elders home afterwards.

R150 buys a set of home-language picture books for the storytime shelf. Donate through the link in our bio, or message us if you can drop off books or chairs.

#GogoStorytime #Literacy #DonateToday #GetInvolved #SouthAfrica

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Township Stories & Realities - Sipho

 

Sipho is 15. On Wednesdays after school, he's the one the little ones wait for.

He started coming to the reading corner to do his homework somewhere quieter than home, where four siblings share two rooms. 

Then 8-year-old Kagiso asked him what a word said.

 Then the next word. Now Wednesdays belong to Sipho. 

He's patient in a way that surprises the adults: he lets Kagiso sound it out, waits, and only jumps in when she's properly stuck. 

Sipho wants to study engineering one day. 

For now, he's helping build readers.

 Know a teenager who'd be good at this? 

Our Wednesday reading buddies need two more volunteers aged 14–18. Message us to find out more.

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#TownshipStories #YouthLeadership #Literacy #CommunityFirst #SouthAfrica

Township Stories & Realities - International Day of Older Persons

 

Today is the International Day of Older Persons.

 At our kitchen, that means Mama Dikeledi, who was stirring the pot before most of us woke up.

She's 66 and has run the morning pot for five years. 

She knows which kids skipped supper by how fast they eat, and she keeps a tin of extra sugar for the ones who need their porridge sweet to finish it. 

Across our communities, older people carry more than their share: raising grandchildren, stretching one pension over a whole household, holding the memory of how things were done. Today we want to say their names out loud.

Share this and tag an older person in your life who keeps things running. 

Tell them you noticed.

#OlderPersonsDay #RespectOurElders #TownshipStories #Ubuntu #CommunityFirst

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