Help The Sozo Foundation Trust by inspiring a lifelong love of reading by donating books for our new library and empower young minds!
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Help The Sozo Foundation Trust by inspiring a lifelong love of reading by donating books for our new library and empower young minds!
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“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” It has been a life shifting couple of years within the Education system in South Africa that has left many learners, families and schools still recovering from the aftereffects of the pandemic and lack of support. Now more than ever, education plays a key role in providing light to the current realities many learners in South Africa face. With the dropout rate still significantly high in South Africa, it is crucial for us to continue working together to reduce these statistics. In the community we are seeing a significant amount of young high school learners who have huge foundational gaps, specifically within English and Maths. Based on the PIRLS study, it was found that 81% of grade 4 learners could not read for meaning. We are seeing a direct correlation to high school learners who enter in grade 8 who have limited understanding of how to read for meaning, as well as facing major foundational gaps in their subject knowledge impacting overall academic standing. We believe that by encouraging a love for reading, nurturing the practice of regular reading will improve literacy skills and will overall boost reading for meaning across subjects in schools. Thus ultimately we will see more learners staying in school and finishing high school successfully. The heart is to provide a fun, safe space in the form of a library that will encourage a love for reading. The youth library is a vibrant space for room to innovate fun reading literacy initiatives with the youth. We envision the space becoming a haven for learners and a space where they will come to love reading.
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