World Read Aloud Day is about taking action and demonstrating to the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. As a firm believer of the power of education, Children of Kibera Foundation annually partners with LitWorld to celebrate this important day in Kibera. This is a day to motivate children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words. In the traditional African set up, under communal trees, knowledge and history was passed from one generation to the other by word of mouth. WRAD advances this through literacy. This year we widened our audience by visiting three schools: Olympic Primary, Spurgeons Academy and Red Rose School. The Red Rose children also held an intercontinental read-aloud session via skype with 12 attorneys from Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP in Philadelphia. WRAD activities gained local media coverage on radio and online through Pamoja FM, Voice of Kibera and Kibera TV, reaching more than 6,000 listeners and viewers who heard our call for supporting a reading culture in Kibera. By joining other organizations and communities worldwide in raising our voices together on this day, we show Kibera’s children that we support their future: that they have the right to read, to write, and to share their stories to change the world.
At Spurgeons Academy
'Sheep in a Jeep'
Read aloud session-Olympic Primary School
Pamoja FM interview
'The Runaway Bunny'
At the Power Women's Shop
Children of Kibera literacy advocates
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