The Rally to Read by numbers
Rally at a Glance
- R37-million - The amount raised for rural education since the Rally to Read’s inception in 1998.
- 650 - Total schools on the programme (1998-2009)
- 76 - Number of Rallies to date (1998-2009)
- 34 - Different areas/school clusters supported to date (three new areas in 2009)
- 12 - Series of Rallies completed since 1998.
R2010 will see
- R5-m - The sponsorship target
- R2-m - The approximate value of additional sponsorships*
- 35 748 - Learners’ lives touched
- R23 000 - The cost of one sponsorship - this buys R14 000 of books housed in two portable classroom libraries, and funds R9 000 of teacher training costs
- 1 300 - Participants
- 1 220 - Teachers become part of the programme
- 680 - The approximate number of training days
- 420 - Box libraries delivered
- 420 - Off-road vehicles
- 150 - Shools benefit
- 139 - Children impacted by one sponsorship of R23 000
- 80 - Sponsors
- 10 - Rallies in eight provinces
* This includes
- Game "Tools to Teach" satchel of stationery per teacher @ R1 175 each – R1.5-m
- Waltons stationery packs per school – R155 000
- Kempston soccer, netballs & pumps (4 per school) – R24 000
- SASOL Blue Box Science literacy programme (one kit per school) – R1.2-m
- Standard Bank “Business of Running a School” programme for principals – R500 000
Other additional sponsorships not included in this total include SASOL Backpack per child, Glenrand soccer balls, Makro sweets, Mondi Paper, NND magazine sponsorship, Caterplus (contents of picnics), ABSA water bottles for some of the rallies.