Guardian Me­dia launched its new ini­tia­tive, Read To­day, Lead To­mor­row, on World Read Aloud Day, Feb­ru­ary 5. Sev­er­al schools par­tic­i­pat­ed, and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from var­i­ous or­gan­i­sa­tions took time to read to pupils across the coun­try.

Par­tic­i­pat­ing schools:

1. Febeau Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School-Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly

2. VOS Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School-Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny and Bel­groves Fu­ner­al Home

3. Es­mer­al­da Preschool-In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs

4. St Micheal’s An­gli­can School-GML’s Ryan Ba­choo

5. Holy Sav­iour An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School-Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty

6. Princes Town AS­JA School-GML’s Ryan Ba­choo

7. Princes Town Pres­by­ter­ian School-GML’s Ryan Ba­choo

8. Pointe-a-Pierre Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School-GML’s Ria Ram­bal­ly

9. Cunu­pia Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School-Ramps Lo­gis­tics

10. Nel­son Street Boys’ Pri­ma­ry School-Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion

11. New Grant Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School-Per­sad’s The Food King

12. Care­nage Girls’ Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School-Cen­tral Bank of T&T

13. Pupils from dif­fer­ent schools went to the C3 branch of Nigel R Khan Book­seller where they were read to by the CEO.