Donation creates new chapter for vendors
Good quality, second-hand books are always needed to help empower the vendors from the Street Lit project.
VENDORS from the Denis Hurley Centre Street Lit project were grateful for the car-load of books donated to them by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul at St Dominic’s Catholic Church Hillcrest (SSVP).
As a result of lockdown, SSVP ended up with a surplus of books as many of the books donated to them were neither able to be sold nor stored, so were donated to the Street Lit vendors to sell.
Street Lit is a project of the Denis Hurley Centre that supports the homeless community in Durban’s CBD.
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More than a dozen formally homeless people have been mentored to sell donated second-hand books that have been donated to the project as a way of earning a living.
The vendors were particularly excited a few weeks ago when the project received a similarly large donation of particularly quality books from St Marys Diocesan School for Girls, Kloof.
The project operates out of the ever-supportive Order of St John in Old Fort Road / KE Masinga Road in Durban and is always on the look-out for good quality, second-hand books as well as places for the vendors to sell them.
Contact Illa on 083 326 3234.
Caxton Local Media Covid-19 reporting
