Our Pilot Project

Our first project is a donation of 100 books to Lefofa Primary School a public, co-educational primary institution located in Temba, Hammanskraal, within the Tshwane North education district of Gauteng, South Africa. The school serves a large student body of over 1,000 learners from Grade R to Grade 7.

Lefofa Primary School operates as a no-fee school. This status is often extended schools serving low-income families to ease financial pressure on parents.

The school functions with roughly 29 educators for over 1,000 students, creating a learner-to-teacher ratio of approximately 35:1

Lefofa Primary School's student body is heavily exposed to systemic socioeconomic vulnerabilities characteristic of the broader Hammanskraal area:

• Severe Water and Sanitation Crises: Hammanskraal has long suffered from deep environmental deprivation, most notably a broken water supply network and the failure of the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant. The local municipal water has previously been declared unfit for human consumption, culminating in devastating local cholera outbreaks. The Gauteng Department of Education and humanitarian groups (such as Gift of the Givers) have regularly stepped in to distribute bottled drinking water directly to Lefofa Primary students to protect them from contaminated water.

  
  

• High Unemployment and Poverty: The surrounding township layout of Temba consists of high-density housing with many unpaved roads and varying access to reliable services. Local economic disparities, severe unemployment, and shifting household structures mean that families frequently struggle to meet basic educational costs, such as uniforms or transportation.

This school is selected because it is the primary school the founder of Books of Hope attended. The current socioeconomic conditions of Temba, Hammanskraal are not products of a modern market economy; rather, they represent the deeply entrenched, enduring legacy of apartheid spatial planning, labour exploitation, and educational segregation and the children in this area are still bearing the brunt of the institutionalised inequalities and poverty. Books of Hope aim to