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This Saturday we had another great day filled with reading, writing, and games. Because we had 13 volunteers who wanted to spend the day with us, we were able to run three separate literacy workshops AND run games all day for the children who were not involved.

 Friday 5^th, October, 2012 was the official opening of the Kigali Public Library which was officially opened by the first lady of Rwanda Janet KAGAME. A reading week was organized, with the participation of authors, publishers, writers and books shops who took that opportunity to exhibit their products. The KPL is the first public library to open in the great lakes region, and Rwanda, a country with low reading and writing culture, welcomed the Rotary initiative and is proud to host it.

Last week the initiative Rwanda Reads was launched at a big event at Kigali Institute of Education. The initiative is a 4-year MINEDUC campaign with the aim of spreading a culture of reading in Rwanda.

Several organizations are involved in the initiative, all organizations involved in reading and Drakkar has of course joined in as well. The idea is that over the next four years these organizations will take progress in spreading a culture of reading in the Rwandan community.

Last Saturday a group of five Drakkar Creativity Boost volunteers went to Horizon Primary School to do a Creativity Boost. For those who this is their first time to hear the term Creativity Boost, it is an event done by Drakkar, where volunteers visit a school and do creative games and exercises with the children.

Saturday, St Ignace Primary Scool in Kigali celebrated their final year students because they performed well at the national examination. For the first time, St Ignace is on the top 10 list of schools with the highest marks at the national examination.

Saturday Drakkar Creativity Boost went to Kinunga primary school in Gikondo, where they had a creative morning with the students from primary 6. The Boost included trust-games, story-reading and singing.

Yesterday Drakkar hosted an event where the young Rwandan author Pacifique Mahirwe presented his story and his two books. Drakkar held this event because we believe that one way to spread a culture of reading in Rwanda is by promoting Rwandan authors.

December the 9^th a group of five from the Drakkar Creativity Boost movement went to Gahanga Orphanage to have a creative and fun afternoon with the children and indeed we had.

On Saturday 22 October, Drakkar launched its new initiative " Drakkar Creativity Boost" together with 50 primary students (5th grade) of la Berceuse school in Kicukiru, Kigali. Throughout the morning Drakkar staff and volunteers engaged the students to be creative and had great fun by doing games, songs and exercises together.
 

On Thursday Agust 11, Pearson's official launch took place in hotel des Mille Colline in Kigali. Pearson is one of the leading educational publishers worldwide and the event celebrated new and existing partnerships in Rwanda.

The end of March 2011 Drakkar Ltd started with the distribution of primary and secondary school books. 2,965 Public schools throughout the country are receiving brand new books and readers. Drakkar is one of the major distributors and took up this challenging exercise by reaching out to 30 districts in all 5 provinces in Rwanda.