SAnews.gov.za (Tshwane) / 2 Jun 2016
Resumen: El sueño de un residente Nkuri de tener una biblioteca en su pueblo situado en Giyani, Limpopo, se ha hecho realidad. El Departamento de Arte y Cultura ha entregado una biblioteca para el pueblo de Nkuri después de Norah Ngoveni escribió al Presidente Adjunto Cyril Ramaphosa, solicitando una biblioteca para satisfacer las necesidades de su comunidad. En su carta, Ngoveni lamentado cómo los estudiantes y la comunidad en general tienen que viajar 21 kilómetros para obtener información para sus estudios, misiones y la investigación. Como inconveniente, como fue para la comunidad, el mayor obstáculo en la búsqueda del conocimiento era el dinero que tenían a la parte con que pagar por el transporte a la ciudad. El Departamento de Arte y Cultura ha entregado una biblioteca modular (edificio prefabricado) para hacer más fácil el acceso a la información y los recursos.
Pretoria — A Nkuri resident’s dream of having a library in her village situated in Giyani, Limpopo, has come true.
The Department of Arts and Culture has handed over a library to the village of Nkuri after Norah Ngoveni wrote to Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, asking for a library to meet the needs of her community.
In her letter, Ngoveni lamented how students and the general community have to travel 21 kilometres to get information for their studies, assignments and research. As inconvenient as this was for the community, the biggest hurdle in the quest for knowledge was the money they had to part with to pay for transport to town.
The Department of Arts and Culture has now handed over a modular (prefabricated building) library to make accessing information and resources easier.
The modular library, however, is a short-term solution while the construction of a brick and mortar library will commence in due course.
The Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, said at the handover ceremony that the library will serve schools and the community of Nkuri and surrounding villages.
«This modular library belongs to you. Use it, become literate and read together as families. Let us make reading part of our daily lives and let everyone of us share a book with a colleague, family, friends and neighbours as a way of enhancing social cohesion,» Deputy Minister Mabudafhasi said.
She advised parents to read to their children daily from an early age. «The heritage you will pass on to the children by reading to them will last forever.»
Grant for libraries
Government has shown its commitment to promote the culture of reading, through the Community Library Conditional Grant.
The grant aims to improve the library sector through improving infrastructure, purchasing library materials, access to free internet, providing services to the visually impaired and the establishment of toy libraries, among others.
Since the grant’s inception, 81 new libraries have been built, 343 libraries upgraded and more than 1 400 jobs have been created.
Deputy Minister Mabudafhasi said her department wants to make libraries the information hubs of each community through the grant.
«Our libraries have free access to internet and updated library materials. This brings equality by making it possible for a library user in a rural area to access the same information as a user in an urban area.»
In 2016/17, the department will build 23 new libraries and upgrade 55 existing library structures.
Fuente: http://allafrica.com/stories/201606030273.html
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