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Supporting communities
5.1. National Book Week celebration at Correctional Services
As part of the National Book Week and International Literacy Day, the staff at the Unisa Durban Hub in the KwaZulu-Natal Region, visited female offenders at the Durban Female Correctional Centre Westville Prison on 13 September 2019. The programme involved interacting with offenders on reading. The talks were on the importance of expanding knowledge to make better life choices through reading.
Ms. Presha Pillay, Ms Ntombifuthi Lushaba, Ms. Nomonde Maqubela and Mr. Morgan Soobramoney – Durban Library, with a DCS of cial.
5.2. Commemoration of Youth Month: 16 June
The Unisa Library joined the Funda Mzantsi Project at the Greenport Correctional Centre for the Reading for Redemption Youth Programme. The aim of the programme is to give offenders a fresh start through encouraging them to read books and be lifelong learners. The central theme for the day was: “Education is the cure for poverty.” The programme, in which inmates and correctional of cers took part, included book reviews, impromptu readings, debates, and a spelling bee contest, among other activities that took place in English, Sesotho, Afrikaans, IsiXhosa, and IsiZulu. Former inmate
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