By Merritt Frey, Executive Director
Looking for a fun volunteer activity to while away the cold and snowy hours of February? Get involved with Read to Mali!
In this new volunteer campaign, our students need your help. We need our English-speaking volunteers to read a short story or poem aloud and video yourself doing so. Your video is then used by our English teachers in classrooms in our remote partner villages in Mali.
Your reading video will be a hit in our classrooms where even textbooks can be a rarity. Most of our villages have no electricity and no access to the internet — making a video an exciting and diverting classroom activity! Plus, sharing a fun story will liven up the typical language lessons, which focus on memorization.
Our goal? We want to record 50 stories by May 15 to help our students learn English…and have some fun. Learn more by signing up for our online Read to Mali Volunteer Evening this Thursday, February 18. You can also learn more and sign up to read on the new Read to Mali Campaign webpage.
