Join the global audience with your stories: World Read Aloud Day #Wrad17

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World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words and creates a community of readers taking action to show the world that the right to literacy belongs to all people. World Read Aloud Day is celebrated by millions of people in more than 100 countries thanks to people like you who participate and spread the word across the globe!

We want to be part of the global celebrations by writing stories that would be read aloud. These are short stories that inspire us. They should be around the following themes in line with the Litworld 7 strengths countdown:

  • Belonging
  • Curiosity
  • Friendship
  • Kindness
  • Confidence
  • Courage
  • Hope

Our Challenge

Share a story telling challenge on social media based on the following themes:

  1. (Adults from 18 years and above). Submit a story of 300 words maximum with a moral lesson on Confidence or Belonging.
  2. (Secondary school students) Submit 300 word story with a moral lesson on Curiosity or Hope.
  3. (Std 6-8 students) Submit a 300 word story with a moral lesson on Friendship or Kindness 
  4. (Std 4-5 students) In 300 words, tell us a story of how you were kind to someone at home or at school.

The stories should be handwritten and clear photos of the story submitted to our Facebook or Twitter messenger. Send your full name, phone number, class or age, school, along with your photo story. Parents, encourage and help your children to participate. The deadline for submissions is on Monday 20th February, 2017, at 10 am.

10 best stories will get published on our blog and they will be awarded airtime worth 2000 shillings. We will announce the winners on Friday 24th February. Let’s get this going, it could be you walking away with that airtime. 

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