Equal Education Needs Your Help in our One School, One Library, One Librarian Campaign

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 20:12

 

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THE MARCH TO PARLIAMENT ON 21 MARCH 2010

“Equal education has my full support.... I support you 100%." – Dr. Mamphela Ramphele

“We have failed you. The fact that our children must march for libraries 15 years after democracy means that government, communities and citizens have failed our children. I will join the march.”– Sindiwe Magona

“Every child deserves the equal right and chance to learn. I support the Equal Education and I pledge R1000.00 towards the March for Libraries on 21 March 2010.” – Zackie Achmat

We need your help:

Petition for school libraries

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 03:56

 

Over 12,000 people have signed the paper version of this petition. Please sign the petition by completing the online petition form. Please only do so if you live in South Africa (whether or not you have citizenship) or you are a South African citizen or permanent resident living overseas

Campaign Update - 1 School 1 Library 1 Librarian!

Submitted by administrator on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 23:33

The Campaign for School Libraries being led by Equal Education (EE) is gaining momentum. The aim of the campaign is to get government to produce and implement a National Plan for School Libraries. At present only 7% of schools have libraries and this has to change. Here are some current highlights:

EE visits schools throughout the Eastern Cape

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 00:06

In this article, originally published in The Grocott's Mail, 16 February 2010, Cathy Gush reports on a visit by the EE Roadshow to Nyaluza school in the Eastern Cape. In fact EE has visited schools all across the Eastern Cape. This is just one example.

On Friday, Equal Education came to town. And backing them in their 1 School - 1 Library - 1 Librarian campaign were the Eastern Cape’s Save our Schools and Communities (SOSAC) group and Grahamstown’s own Fingo Revolutionary Movement (FRM). These groups are starting to succeed in building support and involvement at grassroots level amongst young people and communities for the issues affecting education in our country and our province. Not least of which is the lack of access to books and a culture of reading.

Data-Capturing 20,000+ Petitions!

Submitted by administrator on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 07:41

Saturday 20 Feb 2010

Tonight from 4pm until 9:30pm the  Equal Education Bookery was full of people doing an unusual but vital form of activism. About 25 EE activists spent hours typing up the thousands of petitions we have collected over the past months. 
 
Well over 20,000 people have signed the petition demanding a National Policy on School Libraries. We need the information in electronic format so that we can send bulk sms's to everyone who has signed the petition, reminding them of the march and other activities. We will keep their details and use these in future for other campaigns.
 
We had 18 laptops going at once, music, some snacks and regular water refills on a boiling hot evening. See the picture attached to this e-mail. We did not finish all the petitions, and another few sessions will be needed, hopefully with new people so that the hard-workers from today can get a break. 

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