Goge Africa Foundation in partnership with Pelican Post a UK based Educational Foundation played host to 20 children from Kudub Primary School Book in Lagos State, Nigeria. Pelican Post is a new postal service that aims to inspire young minds in Africa by creating an avenue for people to donate books to children in Africa, stimulating a culture of reading in them.

22nd of August 2011 was a fun filled day as the children received books from the co-director of Pelican Post, Mr. Tunji Akinsehinwa, who arrived in Nigeria on the 8th of August 2011 with 44 copies of Alexander Mccall Smith’s “Akimbo and The Elephants”. There was also an interactive Session, where the children laughed and asked questions as they read their new books out loud with glee.

This event marks the beginning of an initiative between GAF and Pelican Post to develop and encourage a healthy reading habit amongst Nigerian children, as knowledge is the key to our National Development. Through this partnership with Pelican Post we also aim to generate feedback from Nigerian schools on how their students assimilate books, their literary interest level and novel concerns about reading. There were photo sessions with the brand Ambassadors of Goge Africa – Nneka and Isaac Moses; and copies of these life-long images will be sent to their children for their own Journals.