Reading culture – Impertimus

Creative Writing Session in Olivine Academy

admin — Wed, 22 May 2024 09:01:38 +0000

In 2022, we had the privilege of conducting our creative writing session in Olivine school in Mombasa. This come when the director of Olivine Academy, Dr. Oliver saw social media posts of African Storybook activities on our social media.

We had a meeting on how we can conduct the Creative Writing session in her school.

She had tried different apps to engage and encouraging the pupils and her staff to embrace reading and writing but was not successful. We did a school assessment on what gadgets were available including computers, and tablets. At that time, they had 20 tablet and 1 digital tv which could not support either downloading the African Storybook apps or upload the downloaded African Storybooks pdf which we use for our writing sessions. We did a pilot of creative writing session with one class of 14 pupils.

Early 2023, we did conduct the creative writing sessions for 95 pupils from grade 3 to grade 7. Currently each grade has 2 classes per week for African storybook activities.

To ensure continues use of African Storybook and support for students writing process, the teachers were trained on the 2 main African storybook tools (Reader and Maker applications) to the teachers for future use in classrooms.

The pupils have for far publish a number of stories using the maker app and currently writing more books under their writers’ club.

Hyenes http://www.africanstorybook.org/reader.php?id=40842&a=0&d=0

Sports day in Gila village http://www.africanstorybook.org/reader.php?id=40848&a=0&d=0

Alice’s holiday http://www.africanstorybook.org/reader.php?id=40947&a=0&d=0

Lost in the forest https://www.africanstorybook.org/reader.php?id=40843&a=1&d=0

Partnership with Neema Foundation

admin — Wed, 22 May 2024 08:23:58 +0000

Neema Foundation is a faith-based organization was registered in 2020 to serve the community of Matane Mane with affordable health services, education and youth empowerment programs. One of its program is running reading clubs and literacy combined with feeding program in schools around the area. Neema Foundation is looking forward to opening its own Community library on its site.

Neema foundation was referred to me through the CEC for Education and ICT Ms Clara Chonga as we have similar interests and agenda literacy promotion in Kilifi county. Dr. Kamuche Kea-Sadik the founder of Neema foundation was interested to know how African storybook can come in to support and add the books in their upcoming library in Matano Manne, Ganze sub-county in Kilifi.

We shared what African storybook website and apps has done and how our activities have reached different schools in Kilifi County by uploading African storybook downloaded books in the school tablets.

Out of the meeting, we agree to support their reading activities by providing downloaded African storybook in the schools they have activities in. These are Misufini primary school,Ziwani primary school and Mwarandinda primary school located in Matano Manne.

On May 10th 2023,we had the opportunity to visit the organization site area and reached Misufini primary school where we launched a reading club. 766 African storybook and 120 book volumes of the same were uploaded onto 20 of the school tablets that are currently been used by the school and Junior Secondary school to improve their literacy levels. The reading club was formed with 150 children enrolled and are meeting every Friday since May 10th 2023.

We are planning for another date to reach the other two schools and also looking to find a way of using African storybook to a deaf school in Kibarani in Kilifi. We are still at the consulting stage with an officer from social services in Kilifi.

African storybooks App in 3 libraries in Kilifi in 2023

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 05:50:33 +0000

Out of last year implementation of piloting African storybook apps reader and maker app with children, teachers and libraries, we were able to reach 200 children and 30 books publish on the African storybook maker app. We worked with children in KNLS Kilifi branch and Silala and Mwaemba primary schools in Ganze under Move the Goalpost field schools.

For Kilifi library we did hold reading and writing sessions on Saturdays since most of the children are available during weekends on Saturday in the afternoon and a 3-day writing and reading sessions during the school holiday. This year we are targeting to reach 150 children by holding reading and writing sessions during half term and school holidays to reach good number of children and consistence in the library.

As for the schools under MTG education program, this year we will work with the 3 last schools reaching 150 children. The schools include Makuhenga primary school, Bahati primary school and Matsangoni Primary school.

This year we are including Dzitsoni community library in the Piloting of ASB tools in Kilifi county. Dzitsoni serve 5 schools whose children access the library resources on regular basis. With the help of the librarian in charge Mr Ngala, we will reach the following school; Dzitsoni Primary school, Kisoeni Primary school, Bungu primary school, Dunguni primary school and Mtondani primary school.

This year we are looking forward for enjoyable reading and writing sessions and showcasing interesting stories that children will create.

International Literacy Day in Kilifi County.

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 11:41:18 +0000

Kilifi, a town in Kilifi County, Kenya, is selected as a learning city by UNESCO. Learning cities are selected to promote the lifelong learning strategy aimed at increasing access to education and information system for people of the County. One of the duties of the learning city in 2023, is to host the International Education Day on January 24 th under the theme to “invest in people, prioritize education.”

The Kilifi County Executive Commissioner (CEC) for Education and ICT, Ms. Clara Chonga, invited Impertimus Education Investment to partner in hosting this event due to the notable role in promoting literacy in Kilifi county. The Kenya National Library Service, Kilifi Library Branch, Impertimus and Kilifi Department of Education and ICT, together held the International Education Day in Kararacha Primary School.

The event started under a tree in the school compound where 500 children and their teachers together

with the team from Kilifi department of Education and ICT were in attendance.

The team from Kilifi

Library and Impertimus engaged the children in constructing and spelling words, and reading aloud using the school tablets and the ASb Lenovo ones from the library.

During the event, we showed the children and teachers how to download and use the ASb Reader

and Maker Apps, and use them to read ASb storybooks and create their own stories offline. We had

uploaded 766 ASb storybooks onto 25 of the school tablets. The children had the opportunity to read in groups from the school tablets. We encouraged the children to read aloud for others to listen.

The Kilifi County Executive Commissioner (CEC) for Education and ICT, Ms. Chonga is very passionate about literacy and improving the education standards of Kilifi County. As an avid reader herself, she looks forward to having reading clubs in primary schools, a reading hour slotted in the timetable for children to read books, newspapers, journals and magazines which will improve their literacy levels. Some of the activities she wants to implement include children reading one book per week which translates to 13 books per term. The reading sessions will help children in the spelling and other literacy activities. Her biggest desire is to see the Kilifi County education narrative changing, particularly, for girls who often discontinue school, from one with high school dropout rate and low educational achievements to one that promotes and records high literacy levels. Her dream is to transform the reading culture from ECD centers to public primary school to be of acceptable standards. She strongly believes that education is the greatest equalizer and accessing reading opportunities in public schools will change the future of the children in Kilifi County.

As of Impertimus as literacy champion in Kilifi, we look forward to work with Ms. Chonga in changing the narrative of Kilifi County.

African Storybook Maker app

admin — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 09:48:04 +0000

African Storybook Maker app

Writing stories using the maker app.

The African Storybook Maker app gives your children and you the opportunity to write stories for other African children to read. The app is available in Google Play for android and Apple store for iPhone. Follow the guide below to learn how you or your child can write and publish open source books for other children to read.

African Storybook Reader app

admin — Thu, 19 May 2022 09:18:22 +0000

How to us African Storybook Reader app

Do you know African Storybook stories are free to download, use and even print for use?

You can get exciting and interesting stories on your smart phone for your children or learners to read. The African Storybook Reader app is available in Google Play for android and Apple store for iPhone.

Follow the guide below to use it for your children at home or in school.

Piloting African Storybooks Apps in Kilifi.

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:15:08 +0000

African Storybook Org is a multilingual literacy initiative that publish openly licensed stories for children in African languages. it has a website, where children and educators can read, create, download or adopt storybooks. African storybook encourages the use of a digital library of openly licensed storybooks for African children. The books can be accessed on its website https://www.africanstorybook.org and on its reader app. It also encourages people to use African Storybook Maker app to creating their own picture storybooks as well as translating and adapting existing ones into local languages.

Teachers and librarians can also support children to write and publish their own picture storybooks using the ASb Maker App and read them on the ASb website.

This year 2022, as Impertimus we have the privilege to pilot the use of the ASb Reader and Maker Apps with children in the Kenya National Library (Knls) Kilifi Branch and Moving the Goalposts (MTG) Library in Kilifi County, Kenya.

The Kenya National Library Services (KNLS) Kilifi Community library was initiated by the community in 2001. This library service the population in Kilifi north population. it is very busy on weekends and school holidays as more children come to the library. It is fully equipped with books, computers and staff.

Kilifi Community library and Impertimus have partnered to train children and their families in Kilifi County on how to use the African storybook tools to access books at home, improve their reading and writing skills as well as advocating for parents’ involvement in their children literacy development.

Piloting the use of African Storybook tools in KNLS Kilifi community library targets children from the nearest primary schools. Every Saturday from 2.30 PM to 4 PM we will be having reading and writing sessions using the African storybook reader app and maker app.

Moving the Goalposts runs mobile library program since 2017 to support girls and young women in rural areas to access reading materials and resources with an intention of improving the reading culture among the targeted beneficiaries through informed and targeted intervention programs. Under mobile library program, Moving The Goalpost works with the 5 MTG football hosts fields; Mwakuhenga, Bahati, Matsangoni, Silala and Mwaeba with the objective of improving the reading culture of MTG girls and women. MTG provide story books, revision, and life skills materials to the 5 identified schools to benefit the MTG school-going registered girls in those schools.

Piloting the use of ASB tools under the MTG mobile library program will advance the goal of benefiting the MTG school-going girls in the schools with access to reading materials and also develop writing skills that will help them in their learning as they use the African storybook reader and maker app.

Piloting the use of ASB tools that is the reader and maker to children in Kilifi gives the opportunity for children to have access to reading materials and also develop writing skills that will help them in their learning.

We aim to reach and hold reading sessions using the Reader App with at least 100 children and Support the formation of at least 10 groups of five children at each library to write and publish their own stories using the Story Maker App.

Host #Read for Food challenge in your community

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:09:00 +0000

We are so excited to see how the #READ4FOODCHALLENGE unfold.

One book at a time, creating reading moments, Building reading culture

This year, Impertimus we are a small a number to reach more children with #READ4FOOD Challenge in the community.

we are inviting partners (Individuals, groups, CBOs, NGOS, Churches) to adopt #Read4Food challenge in their community to promote reading culture.

In a simplified way, you can choose your own reward apart from food.

Identify children in class 3, 4,5, 6 in your community
5 to 10 children per challenge
Any award is acceptable.
Ensure the children can access smartphone to read the African storybooks at home.
As way of celebrating the impact with Impertimus, share photos of children reading, participating in the challenge and a group photo with children and their awards.

Would you like to be part of this year #READ4FOOD Challenge?

Give us a call on 0721694173

Partnership with Sport Connect Foundation

admin — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:35:16 +0000

Partnerships and collaborations make social change happen. 2021, we collaborate with Athanasy Mode, the founder of Sport Connect Foundation operating in Taro, Kwale County to start reading clubs in 2 schools, namely Taro and Fuleye primary school.

Out of this visit, we trained 14 language teachers using the ASB guides on how to effectively use the African storybook stories and distributed over 800 books with them. 1 reading club has been established with 20 girls and 20 boys in Fuleye Primary school.

Reading Competition in Kibaoni primary school

admin — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:24:46 +0000

Who loves competition more than children?

Children in Class 7 Green and Mobi-Lib Reading club in Kibaoni Primary School participated in a reading completion. The completion entitled Reading 500 African storybooks, write 5 words per story from June 16^th to November 2021 for award.

3 children emerge as winners having read 200 books during the competition. Thank you, madam Mbugua for the support to ensure the competition was fair

Here are our winners!!!!