​​Reading Around the Reserve

Without books, education and the environment suffer

African Parks works in countries from Angola to Zimbabwe, supporting communities to care for their local environment and wildlife. 

They know that an educated community is far more able to make better choices for the natural world, so they support hundreds of schools around the protected areas they manage.

We’ve joined forces with African Parks to bring books to the schools of thousands of children around these important reserves through our Reading Around the Reserve programme.

The power of Reading Around the Reserve

Reading Around the Reserve provides book box libraries in schools, each stocked with 200 brand new, carefully selected books donated from the UK. We also provide a grant so schools can buy more books locally and along with cupboards to store the books.

Teachers and head teachers in participating schools also receive training in how to run a school library and use books to enrich classroom learning.

By improving the quality of education children receive, Reading Around the Reserve helps children safeguard their environments and build a more sustainable future.

 

What Reading Around the Reserve delivers

• Libraries are set up in schools around wildlife reserves for the first time
• Teachers become more confident using books in the classroom 
• Children grow in confidence as their reading improves
• The quality of education children receive improves, as does their reading confidence