Monday, July 18, 2016
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
#67classMP Mandela Month Campaign
Non-profit organisation READ to RISE, launched have their Mandela Month Campaign to raise funds for 67 Grade 2 classes in Mitchells Plain (Cape Town).
During the month of July, funds will be raised for the organisation to visit 67 Grade 2 class in Mitchells Plain to conduct their classroom programme and give a brand new story book and pencil to 2,680 learners.
Mitchells Plain is a gang ridden communtity with 45 primary schools who are in great need for books and inspiration. Many children have sadly never owned a book before. READ to RISE conducts a fun, interactive classroom session with lessons, a story, discussion about the book and singing. "We hope to inspire children to read. Book ownership is an important step in igniting a child's love for reading." says Co-Founder and Programme Director Taryn Lock. "Children who love reading, will excel at school and go on to become constructive members of society."
To date, READ to RISE has visited over 550 classes and given out over 40,000 new story books. Currently, they focus on children the foundational phase and have operations in Mitchells Plain (Cape Town) as well as Soweto (Johannesburg).
The aim of the online Thundafund campaign is to raise funds for these children in Mitchells Plain. For R50, we will ensure that a learner in Mitchells Plain will receive a brand new story book and pencil to take home. To contribute to this campaign, please visithttps://thundafund.com/
For more information about READ to RISE, please visit our website www.readtorise.co.za
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Proceeds from new Bumper Cars poetry book to go to READ to RISE
Co-Founder and Executive Director of READ to RISE, Athol Williams, launched his new poetry book Bumper Cars at The Book Lounge in Cape Town on Thursday 14 April 2016. The book includes the poem ‘Streetclass Diseases’ which won the 2015 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. Novelist and Poet Dawn Garisch was the discussant on the night.
Williams is a poet and social philosopher, who is currently studying Political Theory at Oxford University. He grew up during apartheid in Mitchells Plain and believes that one can reach their dreams and be free through reading and education. With degrees from Wits, M.I.T., LBS, Harvard University and LSE, Williams exceled in the business world and co-founded READ to RISE in September 2013 – an NGO which inspires children to read in order to ‘rise’ in their personal development and contribution to society despite their circumstance.
“In my poetry I hold up a mirror to humanity to shine a light on the pain we cause and also to remind us of our beauty. It is my hope that this spurs us on to greater beauty.” says Williams.
Bumper Cars is Williams’ third book of poetry and is published by The Onslaught Press (UK). In this book, he continues his project of reflecting upon the circumstances that leads to human conflict. “The free will always bump into each other, this is the very nature of freedom, but the free do not harm each other, rather they collide like bumper cars and bounce off each other, in love, and carry on with their beautiful lives.” says Williams. “How we see each other determines the nature of the society we create.”
He writes about social justice and the human condition, and challenges the thinking of today’s modern world. His poems such as ‘Beggars’ and ‘Empty Spaces‘ makes one question the social norms in which we live.
“An energy pervades this book, a raw, shocking energy. In an age when intellectual robots are in danger of taking over the world of poetry, here’s something hauntingly different, something savage and visceral and human, a cry we cannot ignore. There’s no danger of not knowing what’s going on in these poems, poems such as where to start, a straight-talking, hard-hitting, political poem of the first order” says Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock.
Williams has also published two children’s books Oaky and the Sun and Oaky the Happy Tree – both books have an inspirational message about finding your true purpose in life and knowing the secret to being happy. READ to RISE uses these books for their classroom programme for Grade 2 and 3 learners to inspire them to read. Williams receives no royalties for these books so that more books can be given to children in under-resourced communities. www.readtorise.co.za
For more about Athol Williams, visit his website www.atholwilliams.com. If you would like to buy a copy of his book Bumper Cars, please email info@readtorise.co.za. All book proceeds go to READ to RISE.
Williams is a poet and social philosopher, who is currently studying Political Theory at Oxford University. He grew up during apartheid in Mitchells Plain and believes that one can reach their dreams and be free through reading and education. With degrees from Wits, M.I.T., LBS, Harvard University and LSE, Williams exceled in the business world and co-founded READ to RISE in September 2013 – an NGO which inspires children to read in order to ‘rise’ in their personal development and contribution to society despite their circumstance.
“In my poetry I hold up a mirror to humanity to shine a light on the pain we cause and also to remind us of our beauty. It is my hope that this spurs us on to greater beauty.” says Williams.
Bumper Cars is Williams’ third book of poetry and is published by The Onslaught Press (UK). In this book, he continues his project of reflecting upon the circumstances that leads to human conflict. “The free will always bump into each other, this is the very nature of freedom, but the free do not harm each other, rather they collide like bumper cars and bounce off each other, in love, and carry on with their beautiful lives.” says Williams. “How we see each other determines the nature of the society we create.”
He writes about social justice and the human condition, and challenges the thinking of today’s modern world. His poems such as ‘Beggars’ and ‘Empty Spaces‘ makes one question the social norms in which we live.
“An energy pervades this book, a raw, shocking energy. In an age when intellectual robots are in danger of taking over the world of poetry, here’s something hauntingly different, something savage and visceral and human, a cry we cannot ignore. There’s no danger of not knowing what’s going on in these poems, poems such as where to start, a straight-talking, hard-hitting, political poem of the first order” says Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock.
Williams has also published two children’s books Oaky and the Sun and Oaky the Happy Tree – both books have an inspirational message about finding your true purpose in life and knowing the secret to being happy. READ to RISE uses these books for their classroom programme for Grade 2 and 3 learners to inspire them to read. Williams receives no royalties for these books so that more books can be given to children in under-resourced communities. www.readtorise.co.za
For more about Athol Williams, visit his website www.atholwilliams.com. If you would like to buy a copy of his book Bumper Cars, please email info@readtorise.co.za. All book proceeds go to READ to RISE.
Jerome Mentor running Comrades Marathon so children get books
Running for literacy!
GivenGain campaign by Jerome Mentor
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The 91st edition of the Comrades Marathon will be run on 29 May 2016. This year it’s a down run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban approx 89.9km.
This year I will be running my 16th Comrades Marathon.
Ever since I heard about READ to RISE I wanted to support it. Unfortunately, I’m not able to assist financially at this point in time. I have school going kids of my own, one in Grade 4, one in Grade 10 and my eldest son is in his first year at college. I’m a self-employed bookbinder and I work alone from home.
When I heard about the GivenGain initiative I saw this as the ideal opportunity for me to get involved.
I attended Parkhurst Primary School in Westridge, Mitchells Plain, so I am aware of the challenges the children face. I hope to raise funds so that each of the 154 Grade 2 learner at Parkhurst Primary School can get their own new story book to take home. For some, this will be the first book that they will own.
Please support this great cause. Join me in my run for new books for children at Parkhurst Primary School!
Thank you!
https://www.givengain.com/ap/jmentor/
GivenGain campaign by Jerome Mentor
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The 91st edition of the Comrades Marathon will be run on 29 May 2016. This year it’s a down run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban approx 89.9km.
This year I will be running my 16th Comrades Marathon.
Ever since I heard about READ to RISE I wanted to support it. Unfortunately, I’m not able to assist financially at this point in time. I have school going kids of my own, one in Grade 4, one in Grade 10 and my eldest son is in his first year at college. I’m a self-employed bookbinder and I work alone from home.
When I heard about the GivenGain initiative I saw this as the ideal opportunity for me to get involved.
I attended Parkhurst Primary School in Westridge, Mitchells Plain, so I am aware of the challenges the children face. I hope to raise funds so that each of the 154 Grade 2 learner at Parkhurst Primary School can get their own new story book to take home. For some, this will be the first book that they will own.
Please support this great cause. Join me in my run for new books for children at Parkhurst Primary School!
Thank you!
https://www.givengain.com/ap/jmentor/
Progress to date - 10k children in Mitchells Plain still need your help
To date, we have raised funds for 4,700 children but 10k children still need your help. Help us visit their class to do our programme and give each child a new book to take home.
Visit www.readtorise.co.za
To sponsor a book, it only costs R45 (or $4).
Monday, January 4, 2016
READ to RISE nominated for the 2016 Civicus Nelson Mandela Graca Machel Innovation Awards
We are delighted to be a nominee for the 2016 Civicus Nelson Mandela Graca Machel Innovation Awards.
Please show your support by clicking on the link and 'liking' or commenting.
http://www.youcanbethechange.com/index.php/organisation-nominations/838-read-to-rise
Thank you we appreciate the support!
Please show your support by clicking on the link and 'liking' or commenting.
http://www.youcanbethechange.com/index.php/organisation-nominations/838-read-to-rise
Thank you we appreciate the support!
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