Mother of All Nations set to hold
2016 read camp project
500 students from various schools within
and around Madina, a suburb of Accra have been selected as beneficiaries of
this year’s read camp project aimed at inculcating the spirit of reading
and writing in young ones.
The week–long event is
scheduled to come off at Umar Bun Hatab Islamic School near Madina Zongo
community starting from August 16 – 23, 2016. Each participant
throughout the one week period will be provided with working stationery in
addition to a free meal per day.
It is expected that at the end of
the project, the participants will develop the understanding of reading and
writing through the principle of learning by doing, to subsequently reflect in
their academic and social life.
According to Director of
the Mother of all Nations Foundation, the event organizers, Mr. Zico
Abubakar Ishaq Newton, the move is equally geared towards steering students
towards education in a more scientific and technological / engineering nature;
something which is not always easily achieved in a traditional classroom
context.
A similar event was held in 2015,
but Mr. Zico Abubakar Ishaq Newton in an interview maintained the 2016 read
camp project will see the read camp team visiting the participating
schools after the event to check up on the performances of the beneficiaries
and assess how the project has impacted on them. “We’re going to read
African stories, re-write them in our own way to complement what the Ghanaian
educational system provides” he stressed.
Researchers have observed reading changes people’s
lives, increases understanding in various ways, enhances access to
information and improves writing skills among others but unfortunately most young people in Ghana shows apathy
towards reading.
It is against this backdrop that,
the Mother of All Nations Foundation, a non-governmental organization
located in Madina Zongo, is leading the way in curing this canker by helping
young people irrespective of their religious background to embrace reading and
writing at the lower level through the read camp initiative that uses carefully tailored
models to develop passion among young people for reading and writing skills.
It
provides opportunity for one to be creative, understand reading and
writing techniques right from the lower level. The initiative engages young
people’s mind to learn beyond classroom all the time.
The
Mother of All Nations Foundations is humbly calling on benevolent organizations
and individual philanthropists to come on board and support the project in kind
or cash to help Ghanaian children tap the enormous benefits embedded in reading
to the betterment of their future.
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