Posted February 15, 2015 by Jean Marie Habimana “Literacy for Self-Reliance/ Dusome Duharanira kwigira” in Kinyarwanda. This years Reading Week will range from 16-20 February 2015.  For Rwanda Library Services, the main purpose of the book and reading festival week is:

• To promote and enhance literacy, reading and writing culture,  especially for youth and children
• To raise awareness on the role of public libraries as information and cultural centers that play a big role to national development
• To raise awareness on the role of books,  reading  and writing in sparking imagination, creativity and analytical thinking.

This book and reading festival week (third edition) will comprise of various reading and writing promotion programs as well as information about RfR literacy programs, which will be celebrated this week throughout the country with support from different partners. Furaha Enestine, RfR Library staff, reading for teenagers and guiding on how to explore a book Check out the scheduled activity at Rwinkwavu Community Library and Learning Center.

DAY & DATE	ACTIVITY
Monday, 16/02/2015         3-5 PM	Story telling & Read aloud for kids
Tuesday,17/02/2015         8-4PM	Participation in RLS Exhibition at Gahini
Wednesday,18/02/2015   3-5 PM	Read aloud and Adults games competitions
Thursday,19/02/2015       2-5 PM	Graduate showcase, Library tour, ICT and Music graduates Certification
Friday,20/02/2015       3:30 – 4:15 PM	Read aloud & riddles.

 

Posted on January 12, 2015  by Jean Marie Habimana In its ICT Program, RCLLC has been formally identified as a center to train the Rwinkwavu community to develop successful ICT skills to be equipped to be employed in ICT related business.   At the beginning of June 2014  ICT Classes only 1 of 24 students was able switch on a computer” This program is helping to address the imbalance in the supply and demand of skilled workers in current and future job market to meet the actual demands of employers. Rwinkwavu has different job opportunities,  most of which are taken by people from urban areas  who have the required ICT skills; this is the missing ingredient in rural areas like Rwinkwavu due to limited resources and trained ICT teachers. Our ICT Program curriculum is contributing to the increase of Human Capital Capacity in the District  by giving adults and students the skills to compete in business, both in public and private sector development,  in line with the new ICT Skill for Life Standard.   After Six months of ICT classes , 24 of 24 in this class are competent to create a ICT related small business Through the training our ICT Program provides opportunities, giving trainees the tools to contribute to the socio-economic development for themselves, their families and their community. Our continuing focus is on improving the quality of our program as well as extending the range of teaching and learning strategies, meeting individual needs while using participative methods, and motivating the learner. All aspects of a successful ICT program are covered, from how to assess learners at the start of a course to ways of enhancing teachers and trainers’ professional development.

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Jean Marie This is the time to express our deepest thanks for The FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE (FAMCO) donation to Rwinkwavu Community Library and Learning Center for 40 boxes library books!! Generous gift from partners like you greatly contribute to our efforts of fighting poverty of the mind and Spirit,  this is the moral support needed to continue our mission.

Maaike Flinkenflogel, Head of Family and Community Medicine Department (FAMCO) at University of Rwanda helping working together with RfR’s Jean Marie HABIMANA and other PIH staff to separate the Medical and Library books

FAMCO has a deep commitment to the community through their nurse education and health programs and in Ready for Reading’s work to empower the Rwinkwavu community through literacy, technology, and life skills, enhancing academic, social and economic opportunities. Thank you to PIH staff and the medical students to the kind help to separate these books To the FAMCO student’s who collaborated with RCLLC staff in organizing the books and to the Rwinkwavu Hospital Nurses for their Health Education Sessions at RCLLC; there is no way to fully express our gratitude for your loyalty. Providing such a gift to the community along with the FAMCO Program, will play a key role in improving heath outcomes and reducing illiteracy in the Rwinkwavu Community. We at Ready for Reading/Rwinkwavu Community Library and Learning Center  say thank you on the behalf of the community for your amazing contribution that will help  satisfy all the needs of library visitors. We look forward to our continued partnership.