About 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 show 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 has humbly called 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 for their future.
By Joseph Kobla Wemakor | 3news.com
