The principal of the school, Silas Pillay said the foundation phase classes were treated to a story read by Vodacom volunteers.
Pillay stated, “The initiative was a great success that contributed much to our school’s initiative to drive reading and literacy as a focus at the school. The school also ran a programme with all the pupils under the theme, Readers as Leaders. Thank you to Vodacom for the gifts and the time they spent reading to the children.”
Champion volunteer from Vodacom, Riona Singh said, “Vodacom volunteers enjoyed taking part in this incredible reading initiative. A total of 14 volunteers read to 720 children from the foundation phase at Halfway House Primary school.”
Singh said Vodacom volunteers also read to schools around the country and encouraged children to open a book and open themselves up to a big wide world where imagination creates a make-believe world where you can be anything you want to.
“We also sold books at Vodacom World to promote this initiative and donated stationery sets, suckers and gifts to the kids,” she added.
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