“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” - Emilie Buchwald
Do you remember your parents reading to you? Snuggling up on dad or mom’s lap? Playing snakes and ladders with your brother? Fighting over a game of Monopoly? Piecing together the elephant’s trunk and body in your favourite puzzle?
There are children who have never had these experiences. Why not give up some of your time to spend it with the children in these two orphanages, and give them some lifelong memories?
We would like a team of volunteers (all ages welcome) to visit the Ebenezer House of Hope and Tshwaraganang Orphanage, both based in Hammanskraal, at least once a month as part of a reading project. The children range in age from babies to 18 year olds. At each visit, we’ll allocate not more than three children to each volunteer. You’d then spend up to an hour reading to the children, having them read to you, playing board and card games and doing puzzles together. You could also sing songs with your children, and we w’d definitely like to encourage the children to pray for each other.
Dates:
27 August
17 September
15 October
12 November
10 December
Time: We’ll leave at 9am and return at 1pm.
What do we need?
Children and teenager books:
- Cardboard, cloth and plastic books with large, simple pictures
- Lift-the-flat, touch-and-feel, or peek-through play books
- Alphabet books
- Predictable books with repeated words, phrases, questions, or rhymes
- Wordless picture books
- Books with rhyming words, word games, or songs
- Poems or stories written from a child's point of view
- Story books
- Children’s bible books
- Comics
- Novels
- Educational books on people, places, animals, science, history, astronomy, etc.
Board games:
- Ludo
- Snakes and ladders
- Monopoly
- Boggle
- Scrabble
- Snap
- Domino’s
- Any other appropriate card and board games.
Puzzles – especially for younger children.
Plastic containers (big and small) in which to store games and books.
Materials to set up “reading” and “games” corners:
- Bookshelves
- Paint
- Wood
- Beanbags
- Carpets
- Cushions
- White boards.
Who can I contact for more information?
Wanda 0829497857 or Sonnette 0735628047.