Help vendors sell more books in the Highway area
The Denis Hurley Centre Street Lit book project is looking for places for their book vendors to sell in the Highway area.
THE Denis Hurley Centre has appealed for help finding a place to sell quality second hand books in the Highway area for their Street Lit book project.
Like so many other initiatives, the centre also battled during lockdown.
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“Finding places to trade is a challenge. Typically we used to trade at events; festivals, theatres and galleries, which are no longer always viable. We have vendors and books, we just need places to sell. We want to sell legally, with due permissions, and ideally we would request a safe place for our vendor to shore his/her books and table over night too if possible,” said project facilitator, Illa Thompson.
She pleaded to anyone who has access to a busy public space such as shops, a regular market, an office complex, a coffee shop, a gym, club or a place of worship, where it would be appropriate to sell books.
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The Denis Hurley Centre Street Lit project is an award-winning entrepreneurship project. It is an initiative of the Denis Hurley Centre, working out of the Order of St John – Durban.
It was birthed in the notion that Durban is a Unesco City of Literature: and that during lockdown, people can still read, although libraries were closed, and some remain so, and new books are expensive.
“An elegant solution was selling affordable quality books to an eager public, while supporting a vendor who has experienced homelessness and earns a modest income from selling books. It was the KZN finalist in the SAB Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards 2019.
“We have managed to keep all of our team off the streets and in shelters and in some cases even in rented rooms over lockdown through this project. We have two vendors living in Pinetown, so finding places for them to trade close to home saves on transport costs which with heavy boxes of books, is considerable,” said Thompson.
To assist or find out more information, email Illa: books@denishurleycentre.org or visit www.denishurleycentre.org.
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