Denis Hurley Centre looking for more spaces to sell books

The Street Lit book sellers in their bright lime-green clothing are noticed all over Durban. They are looking for more spaces where they can sell their books to help in caring for the city’s poor and homeless.

Donel Tombeni of Street Lit selling books. Photo: Ayanda Zulu

THE Denis Hurley Centre is a proactive NGO based in Durban that cares for the city’s poor and marginalised. One of their flagship entrepreneurship projects is Street Lit which helps a team of homeless and formerly homeless rehabilitated men and women earn a basic income from selling good second-hand donated books at venues around town.

Denis Hurley Centre Street Lit booksellers, Anele Ntembezi, Alvin Dube and David Jones, trading at Windermere Centre. Photo: Submitted

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Vendors can be found at Pick ’n Pay Hyper by the Sea on weekends as well as at the Durban Botanic Gardens, Berea Centre, KZNSA art gallery, at the municipal satellite container library alongside the Workshop and The Denis Hurley Centre in Durban.

Michael Miya, a member of the homeless community and a patron of the Denis Hurley Centre, with Illa Thompson from the Street Lit project and Thembeka Mchunu, representing the management of the Denis Hurley Centre, all ecstatic about the Denis Hurley Centre’s new wheels. Photo: Nia Louw

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The Street Lit vendors are also looking for more places to sell their books. Community members who would like to donate books, and business owners interested in offering the vendors a space to set up their books, can contact Illa Thompson via books@denishurleycentre.co.za. Look out for their bright lime-green branding.

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