Meet an 11-year-old girl Racheal Nafula, a student from Kibera School for Girls (KSG) SHOFCO, who won the Mashujaa wa Kusoma Award on Monday, October 21, after reading 1,178 books.
Rachael read the books in three months marking a new record. Mashujaa wa Kusoma Award is a recognition event organised by Worldreader and the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) to ignite the love of books for young people.
The young scholar from Little Rock School earned a total of 20,680 points after clearing the catalog. The awards ceremony, which spotlights exceptional young readers and communities that have embraced reading as a path to empowerment, took place at the Maktaba Kuu Building in Nairobi.
The campaign encouraged children to read 25 books within three months, with the best performers recognized as reading heroes in a bid to spur reading culture in young learners.
Other winners include siblings Quintine Owino who read 1,087 books, and Delssa Owino who completed 1,080 books. Similarly, Ian Olive read 1,077 books and Wesley Joel Mareri 732 books.
Source: www.kenyans.co.ke
