Reading Kiosks

Providing reading stations for children to congregate for learning


Literacy rate amongst children in Ghana is very low. Although, Statistics show that Ghana’s literacy rate for people aged 6 and older was 69.8% in 2021. However, literacy rates vary by region, with the Greater Accra Region having the highest rate at 87.9% and the Savannah Region having the lowest at 32.8%, We believe that this advertised rate may be much lower and may even be lower if the level of literacy is considered

This project is designed to provide libraries outside the classroom environment although on school premises to provide opportunities for children (both those enrolled in the schools and those not enrolled) to read under supervision.

Our Objectives

Objectives / 01

Provide an independent library system outside that provided by the school system

Based on research done by the Chamber of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Most Libraries in public schools are ill-equipped and provide a limited number of books, diminishing the ranch of required reading for children. Further, Most of these libraries are usually ill maintained and are run down within a few years of being set up, again there is a shortage in teacher willing to supervise the reading of pupils. All these render the traditional library system ineffective. Again, the libraries usually close when school is closed, limiting the exposure of pupils to reading material. to do this,

Reading kiosks will be fabricated and placed on the compounds of primary schools around the country to provide books and reading assistance to pupils interested in sharpening their reading skills
Children will have access to trained supervisors who will teach the child reading exclusively
This will be managed outside the individual system to ensure that resources are better taken care off and independent assessment of reading instructors can be done without government intrusion
Objectives / 02

Partner with local international bodies to provide reading material

By our estimation, with the revision of reading curricular are implemented worldwide, there are many books that are disposed off. Many other books are thrown out when they have already been read. We in tend to partner with international and local organizations to supply books to power the project.

To get this project to succeed there is a need to partner with other organizations to share resources and build capacity amongst each other in working to achieve a common goal, educating the children of Africa
To get partners, to provide reading material to power the project as the at is the key component of the project
To have government and other organizations provide the means in funding to fabricate the required reading kiosks
Objectives / 03

Create reading Kiosks for Pupils to come together to read under supervision

We feel that the traditional library although good need to be innovated to reach more children, there is a mobile library module that takes books to less privileged communities after which the books are given out to the children. Although this is also good, we believe there are parts of that module that can me improved. The reading kiosk had been the center of reading culture and information dissemination for over 100 years, and we intend to tweak this to bring reading to the children of Africa at a moderate cost.

The Kiosks as compared to traditional Libraries will be built at a considerably lower cost. Ensuring that many can be built around the country
The Kiosks as compared to the traveling libraries will provide a place for congregation, supervision and instruction for children year round, rather than a short visit every few months
The kiosks will ensure that reading material are reused to get the best out of each book as compared to distributing the books to children, after which the books are used as toilet paper when the need arises.
We are looking for

Partners

To get this project off the ground, We seek to partner with organizations to provide Expertise, Funding, Logistics and Training to ensure that this laudable initiative is launched to provide the desired impact. Although this is focused on Ghana for now, the scalability of the idea provides room to grow and innovate to increase the literacy rate in Africa and beyond.