The Daniel Kids Initiative

Happy Teacher's day to all teachers.

We love you.

I love Google's theme picture, it reminds me of a dream we have here in this organisation.

2015, a project i had planned for a surburb of Lagos to teach indigent children how to read. Every child deserves to be limitless.
We will still fly like a bumblebee in due time. Very soon.

Dreams are valid. Every child has a right to fly like a bumblebee!

Third slide- phote credit (Google)

Happy World Book Day 2021 (UK)

In Honour of REV DR BARTHOLOMEW EGBIGWE, I CELEBRATE 2021 WORLD BOOK DAY BY RENEWING MY COMMITMENT TO BEING A CHILD READING ADVOCATE.

IT'S A LEAGACY HANDED TO ME BY MY LIBARIAN DAD.
THANK YOU, DADDY.

THE DANIEL KIDS INITIATIVE WILL BE REVIVED IN DUE SEASON.
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EXCERPT FROM MY TRIBUTE TO MY PAPA, MY FIRST ENGLISH TEACHER AND INTELLECTUAL MENTOR (PART ONE)

To those that know my family, it's common knowledge that Daddy managed a free lending Christian library with divine ingenuity despite not being trained in cataloguing, referencing, classification and library management. It was in this environment I grew and developed a natural love for books. I started reading at a very early age.

At age 8, my teacher saw me reading a book and she went berserk- “what are you doing with this book?” It wasn’t a lewd book, just an advanced text for a child in primary four so she seized the book even when I told her my dad gave it to me. She refuted my innocent but true claims- “why would you be reading a university text at your age?” So, when daddy came to pick us up at closing time, she reported me to him and he told her- “yes, I gave her. Let her read the book and call her to explain what she read. If she can tell us what she read, then she understands it.” That was how I ended up reading my future WAEC recommended literature-in-English text in primary four. In retrospect, reading The Concubine by Elechi Amadi at that age left an indelible mark on my quest for reading because no one could stop my mind. I was exposed to adult themes of unrequited love, African contexts, family traditions etc.

World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. Our mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income. We want to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them. Designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, World Book Day is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.

https://www.worldbookday.com/about-us/

Introducing our special reading project: Books At Home - My Baby Reads Too ( Ages 0-5) & Bedtime Tales (Ages 6- 11).
Books at Home is meant to engage parents and help them as they introduce the reading language early on to their children here at The Daniel Kids Initiative. Please, sign up and enjoy our programmes for your children.