Help the city’s homeless by buying second-hand books
Street Lit vendors are selling books all over the city. Look out for their lime-green branding, and support a good cause by purchasing a good read from them.
STREET Lit around-town vendor Alvin Dube had his exciting range of books on offer in Kloof recently, at the Kloof Rotary Anns Annual Open Gardens.
Street Lit is an initiative of the Denis Hurley Centre, 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 works from the Order of St John in the city centre and helps a team of homeless and formerly homeless rehabilitated men and women earn a basic income from selling good second-hand donated books.
Dube has been a vendor for the past five months and has always been an avid reader. His favourite reads are motivational books, Steven King, James Patterson and Jodi Picoult. The Street Lit vendor is grateful to be part of the initiative as he says it provides him with his bread and butter and is improving his life. Dube, with the organisation’s support, has recently undergone a vision test which resulted in his purchase of spectacles to correct poor eyesight.
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Street Lit has transformed the lives of homeless people across Durban, who now make a decent living and have moved from the streets into shelters or into their own homes.
Street Lit is searching for places to sell fabulous books. If you have or know of a safe, legal and busy public place for one of their vendors to sell books, please inform the organisation. They are additionally appealing to the public for second-hand books in great condition. Contact Illa Thompson at books@denishurleycentre.org to offer support.
Please support Street Lit vendors at these locations: David van der Westhuizen – KZNSA Gallery; David Sithole – outside municipal, satellite container library alongside Workshop; David Jones and Thanda Luthuli around the taxi ranks; Alvin Dube – around town; Eric Makalo – Durban Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre; Richard Nzima and Khanyisile Cele – Pick ’n Pay Hyper by the Sea; Vusi Meyiwa – Berea Centre; Mxolisy Mavimbela – alongside Denis Hurley Centre; Bongwa Mazibuko – Pine Street; Thabo Molwena – Playhouse / City Hall precinct.
