Wolwerivier gets a library

Staff Reporter|Published 2 years ago

From left, Debbie Engelbrecht, chairwoman of the non-profit organisation It’s Up To Me; Christiana Groenewoud, chairwoman of Projects4People, a programme run by some members of the Milnerton Lions Club; and Magdalene Minnaar, a Wolwerivier community leader, at the opening of the community’s new library.

A new community library was opened in Wolwerivier on Saturday September 3. It is the first library in the area.

The library is the brainchild of Wolwerivier community leader Magdalene Minnaar and Christiana Groenewoud, the chairwoman of Projects4People, a programme run by some members of the Milnerton Lions Club.

Ms Groenewoud said she and Ms Minnaar had seen the need for a community library in Wolwerivier six years ago, and Debbie Engelbrecht, from the non-profit organisation Up To You, had supported them.

The library is at the Sunshine Creche. The owner of the creche, Nieke Pretorius, made space available.

Ms Groenewoud said books had been donated to stock the new library.

“Since the opening of the library, Cynthia Querido donated a 12-volume art-book collection, which we are most grateful for.”

Ms Engelbrecht said the library needed donations of laptops and data to help Wolwerivier enter the digital world.

Ward 23 councillor Paul Swart and Projects4People chairwoman Christiana Groenwoud.

Wolwerivier karate instructor Carol Ann Daniels takes her students through a kata demonstration at the opening of the new Wolwerivier library.