The Northern Cape Department of Sport, Arts and Culture celebrated World Read Aloud Day on Wednesday.
THE NORTHERN Cape Department of Sport, Arts and Culture joined the rest of the country in actively participating in the World Read Aloud Day campaign on Wednesday.
World Read Aloud Day is recognised as an activity-filled day that has an immensely powerful impact on children’s development in reading and writing.
Various programmes were held at community libraries throughout the Province to create access to a rich and productive life for the youth.
The objective of the campaign was to advocate for access to literature and diverse stories, as well as the power of reading out aloud.
Libraries, schools and early childhood development centres across the length and breadth of the Province received donations of books.
Focus was placed on children through reading sessions, impromptu reading, storytelling and poetry sessions.
Department spokesperson Conrad Fortune pledged that they will continue to embrace and implement the idea of inculcating a culture of reading and library usage by reaching out to the broader community.
Fortune said that the youth was targeted in terms of promoting libraries as an agent for change and development.
“By doing this we are deepening our democracy and helping to develop a people’s culture,” said Fortune.
“Books in our schools and homes have a strong effect on children and have the power of improving imagination, increasing intelligence, boosting brain power, building vocabulary, increasing productivity and improving cultural diversity and social cohesion.”
