09/09/2026
At GRiC Africa, we champion literacy for all children across East Africa. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to slow down, sit together and celebrate something as simple, yet as powerful, as reading.
We spent the day at Kisapuk Community Learning Centre, one of the communities we partner with, for a reading festival to commemorate International Literacy Day. From the Ministry of Education to parents, teachers and learners from Kisapuk Primary School and neighbouring schools, everyone had a place at the celebration. We were honoured to have Salat Mohammed, Quality and Standards Assurance Officer, Ministry of Education, Ololilai Sub-County, and Commissioner Lucy Kamunye Ndungu, EBS, GRiC Board Chairperson, join us in celebrating the importance of literacy and reading in our communities.
Parents stepped up to showcase their reading skills to their children. Learners took on spelling challenges, showing just how fast they could spell. And then came a very heated debate on “Why learners should read at home all the time,” led and argued by the learners themselves. It was such a joy to watch them take the stage, find their voices and confidently share their ideas.
But we also remembered the learners who could not be part of the festival.
Across the schools we work with, learners took 40 minutes out of their day to participate in a reading session, reading a short story (The Lion and the Boy) to mark International Literacy Day.
A big thank you to Kisapuk Community Learning Centre for hosting us and for creating such a wonderful space to celebrate reading and learning.
And to the Kenya Literature Bureau, thank you for honouring our book drive with a donation of over 50,000 books that will reach learners across Kajiado County. Your support put more books into the hands of children who need them most.
This is what literacy looks like when a community comes together: parents reading, children debating, learners discovering the joy of stories, and communities making space for every child to learn.
