Love for Reading

Biblionef is a dynamic book donation agency based in Cape Town, South Africa. 

Our focus is to provide new books to needy children's schools and libraries throughout South Africa with emphasis on organisations in townships, informal settlements and in remote rural areas.

We are unique in that we provide new children's books in all 11 official South African languages, including books in Braille.

In 2008, Biblionef South Africa celebrated 10 years of donating children’s books. To date, more than 600 000 beautiful and inspiring storybooks were given to schools, children’s homes, crèches, hospitals and refugee camps.

If you are or know of a children's organisation or a school that is in need of books, please visit our How to Apply for Books section.

If you would like to support Biblionef's work, you could purchase our children's books directly from us. Not only a gift for your own child,  by purchasing a book from Biblionef you will directly help more underprivileged children in South Africa with the gift of books.
To see examples of our books you are welcome to browse our Bookshelf, filled with some of the best books available in South African and international children's literature.

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. Illiteracy has a direct relation with poverty and limited educational opportunities.

The most useful approach to improving literacy in South Africa is through the primary education system. By donating books, Biblionef aims to develop a love for reading in children and adolescents, thus stimulating their curiosity and desire to learn and laying a solid foundation of knowledge for their future.