The 2008 Rally to Read by numbers

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• R5.7-million – the amount raised for rural education.
  
  
• R3-million – value of books delivered to schools.
  
  
• R2-million – the value of the teacher development programme.
  
  
• R700 000 - spent on monitoring and evaluation.
  
  
• R20 000 - cost of full sponsorship.
  
  
• 38 930 – number of learners that have improved their reading and writing skills.
  
  
• 1 300 – number of Rally participants over the 11 years of existence.
  
  
• 420 – number of off-road vehicles used to visit the schools.
  
  
• 153 – number of different schools that have benefited.
  
  
• 100 – number of individual and corporate sponsors.
  
  
• 11 – the number of years the Rally to Read has been in existence.