{{More than 30 U.S. Embassy Kigali employees visited 15 schools and the Gihembe refugee camp in Byumba to help Rwandan students celebrate World Read Aloud Day on Wednesday, March 5. }}
U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda Donald Koran visited a classroom of students at Gihembe refugee camp in Byumba to read the Rwandan book “The Magic Formula” by Ibrahima Ndiaye and Capucine Mazill, while other embassy employees chose classic American children’s books as well as books with themes of girls’ empowerment and teamwork.
World Read Aloud Day is celebrated around the world as a way to introduce students and young people to the joys and uses of reading and reintroduce adults to the pleasures of reading to those young and old.
It’s easy to find books in Kigali and around Rwanda to read aloud. The Embassy’s Information Resource Center has books for the public to read during their open hours of 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday each week.
The American corners at Rwanda Library Services and Rwanda Tourism University College in Gisenyi also have children’s books and other fiction and non-fiction books for the public to read.
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