Za Foundation has embarked on an exciting new project to build a community library in the Nkomazi region of South Africa.  Incredibly, there are no public libraries within a 30 mile radius of our sister charity, Thembalethu.  Although schools are supplied with text books, most schools lack fiction books.

Za Foundation hopes to rectify this by building a library for the whole community to enjoy.  We have already recieved donations of several thousand books notably from St Katherine’s School, Pill and the Bristol branch of Soroptimists International.  A successful Twitter campaign also resulted in donations of books from publishers and authors.  We are now in the process of finding a disused container in South Africa which we will then convert into a library.  We also intend to train some of the local women to manage the library and run story-telling sessions and classes.

You can find out more about this exciting project by clicking here and watching this informative video.

If you would like to raise funds for this project or help us in any way, please do get in touch.

Artist's impression of library.