The Agha Khan Foundation has started libraries in all the 195 primary schools in Kwale County.
The organization’s Coast Regional manager Athrash Mohammed Ali said the libraries target all lower classes in an effort to inculcate a reading culture in children at an early age.
Ali said a research by the foundation had found the reading ability wanting among the lower primary school children in the area hence the opening of the facilities.
According to the research the county is facing many challenges that are a hindrance to education and which needs to be urgently addressed.
Ali further said they had also introduced a Reading to Learn programme where parents irrespective of their education status, are also taught how to help their children in their studies at home.
He disclosed that the organization had launched a programme under which village libraries will also be started in clusters of 100 villages.
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