Lifestyle - Roscoe Williams - Read to Rise a non-profit organisation committed to promoting youth literacy in schools

26.10.2020 - TC spoke to Roscoe Williams(Programme Manager) at Read to Rise a non-profit organisation committed to promoting youth literacy in schools in South Africa's under-resourced communities. As the name indicates, they firmly believe that children need to read in order to rise in their personal development and contribution to society. Children who love reading, excel at school and go on to become constructive members of society. It all starts with reading. They aim to address the troubling reality that young children in our communities are not reading as much as they require for their educational development. Children in the foundational phase should be reading around 40 books per year; in under-resourced communities children are reading only 1 to 2 books per year.