Reading Mentors needed for Summer Reading Programme

Several spouses of staff members of the U.S. Embassy, in collaboration with the George Price Centre, are organizing a creative reading programme for Belmopan primary school children.

The programme is now in search of reading mentors who will lead a group of children with reading and related activities. The aim is to stimulate the children to enjoy reading and to gain confidence in their ability to read. There will be three 2-week sessions; each session will be daily Monday through Friday from 9am to 12pm (3 hours). Volunteers could choose to participate in all of the three sessions, or in one or two of them, be it for an entire week or selected days only.

Session 1: July 9 - July 20
Session 2: July 23 - August 3
Session 3: August 6 - August 17

A manual of suggested activities is being developed for use by the reading mentors. If you would like to help us with reading to the children, or with ideas for games and other fun activities based on reading and books, we and the children would love it! Call us at 822-1054 or e-mail at info@gpcbelize.com

Thus far, the programme has received financial assistance from the J. Kirby Simon Trust and the Belmopan International Womens Group for the purchase of books. We would appreciate any additional donation towards this programme, which we plan to continue during the schoolyear.