READING AWARENESS
SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA (RASDA) is a Non- Governmental and a non- profit making organization
with an unquantifiable passion for the promotion of reading culture in Africa.
Over the years, RASDA has taken great and effective steps to rigorously
campaign against the neglect of books especially by children and youths in and
out of school in Nigeria and across the continent of Africa. The activities of
RASDA have been centered on making all to see the importance of developing the
culture of READING hence our slogan is …Reading brings out the star in you!
Our Vision
To promote a formidable
reading culture among Africans through sustainable awareness campaigns.
Our Mission
To be a dynamic channel
of intellectual capacity building of Africa in placing the continent on its
path of development in the world.
Objectives
- To motivate nation-wide and continental reading
awareness programmes.
- To help inculcate reading habits/reading culture as a
way of developing an all-round personality of an individual with
implications for social and moral empowerment.
- To initiate and set up fully equipped Reading Resource
Centres in major towns and rural areas for comfortable reading atmosphere.
- To initiate and fund billboards, hand out, posters to
encourage and foster reading habits.
- To give motivational Awards/Prizes to corporate bodies
or individuals who share our vision of promoting reading habits.
- To set up Reading Clinics and Reading Therapy Centre in
strategic places, to assist children/adults with reading disabilities.
- To initiate and encourage student’s Reading Clubs.
- Organizing of Read To Lead Africa Reality TV Shows
Activities
Our collaborative
efforts with government schools, libraries, institutions of higher learning,
publishers and individuals has been tremendously successful and encouraging.
Workshop and Seminars
At several times, we
organized workshops, seminars and training sessions for students, teachers,
parents and other stakeholders in the education sector.
RASDA organized reading
awareness campaigns for the students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, University of
Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University. We also took the campaign to secondary
schools in various local government areas in Osun, Oyo and Rivers
State.
Donations of Materials
and Books
- RASDA donated; 4,000 copies of READING AWARENESS POSTERS to all the government owned secondary schools in Oyo State.
- 10,000 copies of READING AWARENESS POSTERS were also to all the government owned primary schools in Oyo State.
- Billboards were erected in institutions of higher learning and major cities and towns in Oyo State.
- Thousands of READING AWARENESS STICKERS were pasted on public and private vehicles.
- 2,500 copies of READING AWARENESS POSTERS were also donated to the office of the Head of Service in Oyo State for all government offices and parastatals.
- RASDA donated a 40ft by 20ft billboard to Kwara State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
- Donation of READING CLINIC, a library that caters for reading inadequacies was declared opened by Prof Niyi Osundare, a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, USA at Bodija Isopako, Ibadan Oyo State.
Market Campaigns
RASDA introduced other
unconventional means of reach-outs. We took campaigns to markets in Ibadan,
sensitizing market men and women to join hands in encouraging their children to
read always.
We organized effective
road shows to create awareness, distribute handbills.
Rural Community
Outreaches
We held series of
community based meetings with parents, teachers, community leaders, traditional
rulers and the generality of the people in towns, villages and hamlets.
ABOUT READ TO LEAD AFRICA!!!... AFRICA'S PREMIER TEENAGE CEREBRAL & ENTERTAINMENT REALITY TV
SHOW
Read to Lead Africa is a
cerebral teenage reality TV show in which the participant who are senior
secondary school students live as housemates for 21 days. The show opens a
thrilling window into the lives of the housemates who are expected to live
normally and properly in the house while their activities, moods and behaviours
are captured continuously on camera, and packaged for television viewers to
partake in their feelings and their daily real life dramas.
Housemates are visited
and trained by seasoned resource persons in the fields of journalism, literary
arts, law, science and technology, sports, leadership, health, entertainment
and politics. As the show progresses, housemates drawing from the training,
their intelligence and their exposure to books and reading, escape eviction by engaging one another in eviction contest like public speaking, quiz
competition, critical thinking contests, debate competitions, impromptu speech
contests, masterminds, library research tasks, essay writing contests and many
more.
Housemates’ evenings and
spare times are spent having fun –excursions to tourist sites, partying,
swimming, chatting, sporting, moonlight games, and most especially READING. All
these, the viewers enjoy on TV.
Eviction tasks continue
till two finalists emerge. They contest in a debate on the grand finale in the
presence of parents and dignitaries. The winner goes home with N2,000,000,
scholarship star prize, first runner up goes with N500,000 scholarship prize
and the second runner up, N250,000 scholarship prize while others are rewarded
with fantastic consolation prizes. The wealth of knowledge and exposure
gathered also sticks with the participants long after they have left the
competition.
The Read to Lead TV Reality Show is the concept of Reading Awareness
Society for Development in Africa (RASDA) a Non-Governmental Organization
founded in 2007 by Mrs. Bukola Ladoja, a psychologist, Journalist and author.
The aim of the NGO is to promote a formidable reading culture in Africa through
sustainable awareness campaigns. In its bid to take the reading crusade across
Africa and into as many homes as possible, the organization created the Read to
Lead Africa TV project. Television is one of the greatest means of entering the
homes of people you may never meet.
Vision of the Reality
Show
To Promote Reading
Culture & Intellectual Development in Africa through a TV Reality Show
Mission of the Reality
Show
A Continent where every
individual is intellectually developed and has a drive for reading
Objectives of the Show
The Read to
Lead Reality TV show has three main goals which are:
- To improve reading culture in Africa and propel
development
- To build a strong foundation for leadership in Africa
- To build a dominantly literate African continent.
Read to Lead Africa Reality TV Show
Read to Lead Africa
Reality TV Show is a teenage based reality TV show organized mainly to
promote reading culture among senior secondary school students through contest
in cerebral activities like:
- Public speaking
- Quiz competition
- Debates
- Research tasks
Vision of the Reality TV
Show
A continent where every
individual is intellectually developed and has a drive for reading
Mission
To promote reading culture and intellectual development in Africa through
a Reality TV Show
Objectives of the Show
- Opening up young audience to a new form of compelling
TV, which is intellectual in content and entertaining in presentation
- Creating a passion for reading among African youths
- Exposing youths to great and inspiring books
- Making youths to associate reading with leading
- Making youths to associate academic excellence and
success in life with reading.
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