Julie often drives vast distances to remote rural villages where road signs are absent and roads are just dusty windy tracks. When she returns to the office from a field trip she speaks with great excitement about the changes she has noticed in the children and their families including their newfound "thirst" for reading.

Project Literacy launched the first Run Home to Read programme in Limpopo in June 2006 with the invaluable support of Jim Joel Education and Training Trust, the DG Murray Trust, JP Morgan, Edward Cadbury Trust, AECI and Nedbank. And this year Project Literacy expanded the Run Home to Read project to Soshanguve in Pretoria with the added support of Hermann Ohlthaver, Chamberlains and Haggard Trust.
Exclusive Books has made a wonderful contribution to this project by donating hundreds of books to the local libraries, some of these books are in mother tongue which is an added bonus to the families. Our partnership with Exclusive Books has helped to cement our relationship with the local libraries.

Julie Barton, Run Home to Read Project Manager, says, "When Project Literacy launched the Run Home to Read project in June 2006 it was a pilot project which as with all pilot projects is open to many challenges. Although it drew upon research Project Literacy had conducted in collaboration with UNISA, it was the first time Project Literacy had implemented a family literacy project".
As with any project, if you have passionate, skilled people working on the project then it will only improve the likelihood that the challenges faced during the pilot phase will be appropriately dealt with and the project will be successful. Project Literacy was fortunate to find such a person in Winnie Kganyago. Her experience in the Early Childhood Development field, her familiarity with cultural dynamics within Limpopo, her multilingual abilities in TshiVenda, SePedi, and XiTsonga, and strong work ethic proved to be a winning combination for the Run Home to Read Project. For the Run Home to Read Project Manager, who had absolutely no idea where Giyani was on the map, it was comforting to know she had a Fieldworker who knew the area and whom she could trust to take initiative and be independent. Together they have enabled over 600 families to be trained and with continued support they are sure to reach a further 1,000 families.
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