{"id":41696,"date":"2013-10-26T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T15:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/atlantis-against-illiteracy"},"modified":"2013-10-26T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T15:20:23","slug":"atlantis-against-illiteracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/10\/atlantis-against-illiteracy","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Against Illiteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Atlantis, Paradise Island has taken its commitment to help eradicate illiteracy in The Bahamas a step further with its Atlantis Against Illiteracy campaign.<\/p>\n

It comes as millions of school-aged children the world-over join with the US-based Jumpstart Organisation\u2019s Read for the Record programme, where for one day each year, teachers, parents and anyone wanting to get involved are encouraged to read an assigned book to a group or classroom of children.<\/p>\n

Last year, over 2.3 million children around the world had the book \u2018Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad\u2019 by David Soman, read to them.<\/p>\n

At that point the Atlantis Against Illiteracy programme was created and Atlantis arranged for a guest narrator to read the book to 323 local schoolchildren in the Atlantis Theatre. \u201cThis year we decided to take our efforts directly to the schools in the community in hopes of getting more narrators and children involved,\u201d said organiser and Atlantis Librarian Stephanie Davis.<\/p>\n

In addition to reading this year\u2019s book, \u2018Otis by Loren Long\u2019 Atlantis team members and other narrators from the community talked about the importance of reading and the enjoyment books can bring.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the complete article at tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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