Book Haven - A Literacy Initiative

If a child comes from an economically deprived home with a mom who has a poor vocabulary, by age 3 his fate just maybe sealed. He will possibly never catch up in school and have life long struggles with learning. The average child growing in a middle-class family has been exposed to 1,000 to 1,700 hours of one-on-one picture reading before entering school whilst the average child in a low-income family has only been exposed to 25 hours of one-on-one picture reading during the same period!

Friday, March 27, 2009

Zomi School Library ~ How it started!

The Zomi School mini-Library Project was conceived in a Mamak Shop over Teh Tarik on 27 Mar 2009. Tania Lee & Michael Quan of SIBKL Blessed Community Services, who are the facilitator for the Zomi School met up with Book Haven's Jeff Cheah & LC Lee and viola, within 2 months, the Zomi School was furnished with two Book Cabinets & over 150 books!

The SIBKL Blessed Community Services' volunteers lead by Tania Lee & Mike Quan have their hands full selecting the appropriate books from the Scholastic Book Shop. We also met up with Ms Esther Lau & Wai Leng who are in charge of Book Clubs at Scholastic.

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