CHAPTER 1:
2019: our biggest year yet
On many counts, 2019 was Nal’ibali’s biggest year yet! We’re proud to report the following key results:
| World Read Aloud Day 2019 | 1.16m children read to | 1 in 17 SA children |
| Radio story listeners (est.) in 2019 | 7.761 m listeners | 13% of population |
| Mass media reach (est.) in 2019 | 37.3 million people (billboards, radio stories and radio advertising) | 63% of population |
| Children in reading clubs | 159,191 children | 1 in 124 SA children |
| Time children spent at reading clubs | 7,480,826 hours | 311,701 days |
| Time adults spent volunteering at reading clubs | 493,759 hours | R10.3m worth of time (if valued at minimum wage) |
| Time adults spent reading to children outside of reading clubs | 127,953 hours | 5,331 days |
| Active reading clubs | 5,220 clubs, including 3566 new clubs (68%) and 1654 returning clubs from previous years (32%) | - |
| Number of people trained | 7,988 | 14% increase from 2018 |
| Number of adults supporting reading clubs | 10,593 | 32% increase from 2018 |
| Number of supplements distributed | 5,220,388 | 25% increase from 2018 |
| Number of books distributed | 103,822 | 73% increase from 2018 |
