23 Oct 2025

Lowapi Study Centre has donated about 1,476 books to different schools in Mahalapye.

The centre donated books to Flowertown and Tamocha primary schools, and Mowana and Pekenene junior secondary schools recently. Speaking during a handover ceremony in Mahalapye recently, founder of Lowapi, Ms Bonolo Boitshwarelo said her institution were a neurodiversity centre aiming to curb learning impairment within the education system. 

Furthermore, she said it was a literacy enhancement centre dedicated to early childhood education and supporting neurodivergent learners.  Therefore, she said the month of October was important, as it was Dyslexia awareness month.

She stated that Dyslexia was a learning impairment or disorder that disrupted how the brain processes written language.  In addition, Ms Boitshwarelo said  failure to diagnose Dyslexia early  had left some children out of school. 

She emphasised the importance of books in the academic life of learners and buttressed more on the significance of enforcing literacy as well as  identifying neuro-divergent learners. She spoke of need to do something to detect learners with learning disabilities at an early stage.

“Reading is a human right and everyone should be literate. The way people have access to water is the same way they should have access to reading skills and therefore we need to ensure that our donations should focus more into ensuring we equip our young ones with that which cannot be stolen from them and benefit them for a considerable period of time,” said Ms Boitshwarelo.

Speaking at the same occassion, Mahalapye West Boseja/Flowertown councillor, Mr Khumo Ramagapu expressed gratitude to Lowapi Study Centre, noting that  everyone should play a role in assisting developing schools by collaborating with the government.

He said as the country continues to tackle numerous challenges, communities were encouraged to come up with innovative avenues to be self-reliant. Mr Ramagapu spoke of the significance of education urging teachers to continue being resilient and persevere in contributing to the lives of learners.

Furthermore, he said government has put in place an Act that mandates businesses to contribute towards development of communities in their areas of operation.

For her part, Flowertown Primary School head, Ms Boipelo Fane said the noble gesture was a welcome development. She said schools were facing challenges of learning/teaching aids and therefore a donation of such books will go a long way in improving academic performance in schools.

Appreciating Lowapi Centre’s expertise, she said, the school was grappling with learners who were unable to read and therefore their assistance came at the opportune time to encourage students and teachers to work hard towards ensuring learners invest in reading. ENDS