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