Company gets books to South Africa

MYHERMES, the online delivery service that has a distribution hub in Warrington, has helped deliver around 14,400 books to underprivileged children in South Africa.
The company supported a nationwide campaign by the South African Fruit Industry and its growers’ association HORTGRO by collecting almost 300 boxes of unwanted text and reading books from 120 schools across the UK for onward distribution to farm and rural schools in South Africa.
Pupils, parents and teachers at the local and nationwide schools have donated the books as part of an annual initiative to promote South Africa’s culture and generate valuable educational resources for school children from farms and rural areas. This includes a competition open to all UK junior schools where pupils are asked to create collages with the chance to win prizes of up to £2,000.
Jonathan Bennett from myHermes said: “We are proud to be part of this excellent initiative that is helping get desperately needed resources to underprivileged children in South Africa. Using our nationwide delivery network we worked closely with the South African Fruit Industry to provide a convenient delivery service for all the schools involved to maximise the number of books collected.”
Jacques du Preez from Hortgro Services said: “For every fruit farm worker on a South African farm there are, on average, four dependents that rely on them. The industry is committed to providing education, housing, health and social care, but we hope initiatives such as this will help raise awareness and support these families further. We would like to thank everyone at myHermes for their valuable contribution to the campaign.”