Aleppo Directorate of Education continues to implement “Let’s Read” initiative in all schools in the governorate

The Directorate of Education in Aleppo continues to implement the “Let’s Read” initiative, which includes entertainment and educational activities to shed light on the mechanism of participation in the Arab Reading Challenge competition in all schools in the governorate and encourage students to participate and develop their knowledge and scientific abilities.

Director of Education in Aleppo, Engineer Mustafa Abdel-Ghani, noted in a statement to SANA correspondent that the initiative encourages students to read in distinctive ways, contributes to developing their level of knowledge, and motivates them to be interested in books and reading. He pointed out that reading contributes to building a generation that possesses scientific and practical abilities, and is capable of advancing society culturally and intellectually.

Abdel-Ghani praised the efforts of the Arab Reading Challenge team at the Martyr Sobhi Daya School for encouraging students to participate in the “Let’s Read” initiative because it instills a love of books and reading in them, so that they can be briefed on new ideas and diverse cultures from outside their school curricula, and enrich their analytical, critical, and expressive skills.

The school director, Lina Hamami, noted that after her school won first place in the Arab Reading Challenge competition at the level of Syria as the best distinguished school, the “Let’s Read” initiative was launched under the supervision of the Directorate of Education in Aleppo, which aims to encourage students to participate in the competition in which no participant loses because it expands their knowledge and increases their culture even if they don’t achieve a position at the level of their school or governorate.

Hamami indicated that the initiative continues to include visits to many rural and city schools to benefit the largest number of students wishing to participate in the challenge. She confirmed that her school’s victory in first place at the level of Syria this season and the school’s pupil Sham Al-Bakour winning the title of challenge champion in the previous season make the school and its educational staff in charge of a great responsibility to live up to this achievement and provide its best.

Student Zahraa Al-Ahmad, the champion of the reading challenge in Aleppo in the category of people with disabilities, called on all students to participate in the competition, indicating that disability does not stand in the way of achieving a dream.

Inas Abdulkareem