Biblionef South Africa

For many people in South Africa literacy is still a luxury. Children learn basic reading skills in school but in their daily life these skills are not often nurtured: For countless children there is no chance of losing themselves in a thrilling book.

One of the reasons for this is the lack of appropriate and attractive reading material.

Biblionef promotes the development of children by allowing them to read for themselves for pleasure and by doing so they also help their own community. Children are curious by nature and have unlimited imaginative powers. They embrace the chances to read and to discover and understand the world around them. The pleasure of reading, preferably in their own language, stimulates literacy and enables children to form a solid basis of knowledge and awareness. Children become proud of themselves and of their own culture.

Biblionef plays an important role in this and supports projects which promote reading. Biblionef is unique in the sense that it provides and donates storybooks in all eleven official South African languages as well as Braille and Large Print books to children's organisations throughout the country.