World Read Aloud Day Drum Beats
World Read Aloud Day drums are beating,
beating hard, loud and clear,
from the banks of mother Nile
to the peak of mighty Everest,
let the drum beats of literacy beat,
from the deserts of Arizona
to the rain forests of Brazil,
let its echoes traverse the Times Square of New York
and its rhythm soak the slums of Kibera
let the soothing beats reside in our hearts,
let them arouse the thirst of literacy in our people,
let the beats plant an insatiable desire for literacy,
FOR WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BE TO YOU, IF YOU COULD NOT READ AND WRITE?
©Jacob Seje March 09, 2011.
Today March the 9th is a special day to the human race; we mark the World Read Aloud Day. Just imagine how the world would be if you were not able to read and write? It is for this reason that Children of Kibera Foundation organized the Kenyan Chapter. We set out early in the morning and visited several primary schools where we held reading aloud sessions; this was to motivate the learners and their teachers to cultivate the culture of reading in their lives and to express the power of words from person to person- as LitWorld puts it. The CoKF Staff resolved to join the children of Kibera slums while exercising their right. To read and write.
The day was quite eventful as the Red Rose School received greetings from their counterparts in Polo Grounds New York; our Girls’ Club also got the opportunity to share the experiences of the day bay reading through telephone to the Girls Club in Bungoma (a town in western Kenya)
We at Children of Kibera Foundation shall continue to honour this day, for we know the future of this children lies in their literacy.
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