by Lawrence Donkor
I work as GHEI's Library Administrator and part of my job is running the reading club. Last weekend GHEI was invited to an event held by Books for Africa in Kukurantumi, in the Eastern Region. They held a quiz contest for reading clubs from around Ghana, and also a workshop on in service training for Librarians. We chose Bismark Appiah to represent GHEI from the 10 students in our library reading club. Here are some pictures I took of the event:
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| GHEI Library Reading Club Representative Bismark Appiah doing some last minute review before the Books for Africa reading quiz. |
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| The Books for Africa Library Project held a parade through the streets of Kukurantumi in a celebration of literacy. |
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| Community Libraries from all across Ghana were invited to participate. |
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| Bismark Appiah proudly representing both the GHEI Library Reading Club and the community of Humjibre. People were impressed with our new banner! |
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| Boys and girls from across the country participated in the quiz competition. Contestants all belong to reading clubs sponsored by Books for Africa. |
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| Bismark was very pleased to be awarded a few prizes for his efforts! He was given a cap, a fan, pens and a calculator. |
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| A well deserved lunch break for reading club quiz participants and organizers. |
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| Ghana Education Service presented a certificate to Books for Africa for their support of many libraries in Ghana. |
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| GHEI is proud of Bismark for serving as a great spokesperson for his community and our Library reading club. Here he is ready get back to his home in Humjibre! |
We were very happy to participate in this event. Bismark had a lot of fun in the contest competing with other kids from around the country, and also getting the chance to travel to a part of Ghana he had never seen before.
As for me, the training went really well. This gave me great experience and new ideas for running our reading club here in Humjibre.
Thanks to Books for Africa for inviting us to this event, and their support of GHEI's community library!
I would like to take this opportunity to ask all those who are willing to donate to our reading club. Our readers have really opened their minds through the books we read, and we would like to expand their experience in this program.
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