World Read Aloud Day

Junior School Library took part in celebrating World Read Aloud Day on 06^th March 2013 initiated by LitWorld.  World Read Aloud Day is an awareness day advocating for literacy as a right that belongs to all people, celebrated around the world. There are around 793 million people in this world who can’t read. That’s why Read Aloud Day exists to help people to read and write. WRAD is about Taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people of all ages.    

“World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, especially those words that are shared from one person to another, and creates a community of readers advocating for every child’s right to a safe education and access to books and technology.” ~from the LitWorld website

At Oakridge, children took part in this by reading for their maids and drivers and the people who can’t read and write and shared the joy of reading. By reading to others in the school library and at home Oakridgers showed the world that we support others’ future; that they have the right to read and write and to share their words to change the world.