The setting up of reading spaces is one of the primary goals of the USAID Read Liberia Activity, an early grade reading initiative that targets over 50,000 students in approximately 640 schools in six counties in Liberia. Read Liberia’s social community mobilizers engage parents and communities to increase early grade school enrollment, promote reading at home, develop reading spaces in the Activity’s targeted counties. The Read Liberia program, Dunnor said, motivated her to get involved in the Parent Teachers Association. “I like Read Liberia program because they gave my children books that they bring home to read,’’ Dunnor said. The couple’s front porch is one of a dozen reading spaces that were created in Margibi County.

Source: Front Page Africa August 19, 2020 07:41 UTC