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2022 in Review: The Gift of Books

A big highlight on the Jakes Gerwel Foundation calendar is the annual road trip across the Blue Crane Route Municipality in the Eastern Cape – Somerset East, Pearston, Cookhouse and Kommadagga – to deliver the gift of 9000 brand new Book Dash books and school bags to plus 3000 Foundation Phase learners at the local primary schools.

Representatives from the Jakes Gerwel Foundation, Book Dash and the Gilbert Xuza Primary School
Project partner Jana Hattingh, CEO of Suidoosterfees, hands book bags to learners.
Nompumelelo Sokoyi, Books in the Hands of Children programme manager with Gary Naidoo, Zikhona Jacobs Mbeka and Tjoppie Ferreira and all the characters in Rafiek Mammon’s Faizel and the stars.

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