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 A Call for Primary School library reading hours ENHANSING THE CULTURE OF READING:

A Call for Primary School library reading hours

Madame Chairman, Your excell Read more... PEN SL Community Reading and Mobile Library Project This project targets school children and the wider community in a more robust way in the reading and debating activities.

The project is a communit Read more... PEN Sierra Leone Reading Camps The implementation of the PEN School Club Reading Camp project aimed at keeping school children busy during holidays in their various communities.

Read more... PEN SL Publishing ACTIVITIES (PIX) Since 2011 PEN has been implementing a book development project in collaboration with the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (COD Read more... PEN SCHOOL CLUB PRORAMMES PEN Sierra Leone runs school clubs in regions across the country. It has established over fifty PEN clubs. The aim is to generate interest in reading Read more... PEN Sierra Leone organizes series of online communication programmes With funds from PEN International, PEN Sierra Leone Centre is participating in series of online communication programmes.

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PEN SIERRA LEONE

A Chapter of PEN International, connecting writers around the world. Our mission is to promote social change through engagement with reading and writing and the world of ideas and to create an environment where there is freedom of expression and exchange of ideas for all sections of society.

In an anthology titled ‘Book of Voices’ written in support of Sierra Leone PEN and edited by the founder and first Executive Secretary of PEN Sierra Leone, Mike Butscher, in 2005, the rationale for the formation of PEN CENTRE, Sierra Leone  is succinctly captured as follows:

“After the civil war in Sierra Leone, a national reconstruction, rehabilitation and reintegration process started in 2000. However, Sierra Leonean writers, who have contributed immensely to documenting the history, literature and culture of the country, have not benefited from any national programmes.

In order to stop the rapid decline of literary interest, and reduce the exodus of writers, Sierra Leone PEN, a non-profit organization that was formally readmitted as a full-fledged member of International PEN at Ohrid, Macedonia in September 2002, was launched in Freetown on 13 May 2003.”

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