About sixteen trolley libraries are on the way to 16 schools in the Northern Cape as they were selected as beneficiaries of the 2024 Avbob Road To Literacy campaign. Beneficiaries were announced at an event  on 13 June 2024. The AVBOB Road To Literacy campaign, in partnership with Oxford University Press Southern Africa (OUPSA), aims to transform the lives of primary school children across South Africa by making reading and numeracy books accessible, especially to underserved schools. This public-nomination initiative provides children with books in their mother tongue. Avbob stated that each trolley library holds 500 books tailored to the CAPS curriculum and has an estimated value of R65 000. The total investment value for the 2024 campaign came to R32,5 million. Through public nominations, the trolley libraries will be donated to deserving primary schools and educational Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs). Avbob says  these trolley libraries further aim to make reading accessible and popular across SA.

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