Worldwide Literacy (An NPO) has been involved with a literacy project at Ohrigstad Primary School, which Standard Bank has sponsored in 2024, to help address literacy problems at the school through our service provider partner, SmartBrain. We wish to extend out heartfelt thanks to Standard Bank for intervening at a time when literacy is at an all-time low in South Africa.

For this project, SmartBrain Lydenburg did an assessment of all the learners at the school to evaluate their reading abilities. A group of 25 learners were selected based on these reading results and are still in the process of receiving 16 hours of remedial reading training. The project will continue into November 2024 and has already achieved meaningful results.  

The SmartBrain Lydenburg team in action.