WORLD READ ALOUD DAY (WRAD)

Join us as we do our countdown to the World Read Aloud day on Wednesday, 1 st February at Nalituwe Primary and Secondary School in Livingstone, Zambia. World Read Aloud Day (WRAD), founded by Litworld in 2010, is an international advocacy day celebrated by over 170 million people worldwide. This is in celebration of reading aloud to create community, to amplify new stories, and to advocate for literacy as a foundational human right. Over the last ten years, World Read Aloud day has evolved into a global movement of millions of readers, writers and listeners from communities all across the world coming together to honor the joy and power of reading and sharing stories, and continue expanding the definition and scope of global literacy.

TOP THREE REASONS TO CELEBRATE

1. World Read Aloud Day is a celebration of oral storytelling, an ancient tradition for sharing information and building communities.
2. World Read Aloud Day is an opportunity to support diverse stories and authors, and to advocate
for improvement of reading culture in communities.
3. World Read Aloud Day is an opportunity to advocate for literacy as a foundational human right.

Studies show that daily reading aloud to children puts them almost a year ahead of children who do not receive daily read alouds regardless of income, education level or cultural background.
This is the reason our learners in our Literacy clubs are always ahead of other learners. Kindly Join us physically or virtually and enjoy listening to learners’ advocacy, storytelling, poems,
speeches and the like.

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