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We develop and cultivate reading habit among children:
a condition for quality education

The mission of CITA reading skills foundation is to explore the potentials of school children through literacy. Early childhood research has revealed that the family as an educator has significant influence on child language and literacy.

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Quality Education
We explore the formation of the right

habit in children as a solid foundation to quality education. Research has also shown that children form their habit before the age of 9 years, this information is so critical for parents and teachers to encourage children to focus their attention in the right direction as soon as possible.

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Volunteer
We welcome you to join us as a volunteer.

We proudly wish to have you join our team to work with us on stipulated days of the week. We provide you with transport for the agreed days when you are engaged to transport yourself on behalf of the organization within the community or as found necessary to do so.

About Us

Help is Our Main Goal

The mission of CITA reading skills foundation is to explore the potentials of school children through literacy.

CITA Reading Skills Foundation provides a platform whereby Head of schools, teachers, parents and pupils interact together and engage in discussing issues on literacy and how to get involved in building the reading habit. The needed collaboration is essential in achieving this mission.

Early childhood research has revealed that the family as an educator has significant influence on child language and literacy. Research has also shown that children form their habit before the age of 9 years, this information is so critical for parents and teachers to encourage children to focus their attention in the right direction as soon as possible.

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We are Awesome Volunteer Team

We welcome you to join us as a volunteer. We proudly wish to have you join our team to work with us on stipulated days of the week. We provide you with transport for the agreed days when you are engaged to transport yourself on behalf of the organization within the community or as found necessary to do so.

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What we do

CITA FOUNDATION Projects

Through quality education the number 4 goal among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the high inequality, poverty, hunger, poor health, environmental issues which characterizes majority of the developing world will be reduced.

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Poverty Delivery

More than One Life Changed

“For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.'”
Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV

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Medicine

Serving Improves Our Health

Serving actually lowers mortality by 22% to 44%. Volunteers had a 29% lower risk of high blood pressure, a 17% lower risk of inflammation, and stay in the hospital for 38% fewer nights.

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Child Language

Early childhood research

Early childhood research has revealed that the family as an educator has significant influence on child language and literacy.

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Education

Building Reading Habits

“To collaborate with stakeholders in Education and facilitate quality education by building reading habits in school children”
“To explore the potentials of children through Literacy”

(SDGs)

Sustainable Development Goals

CITA reading skills foundation using Amartya Sen’s lens of freedom through education provides ideas of how we could prepare the future leaders adequately by guiding and providing support simply through the formation Read more

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Best Gift

Struggle Over The Inheritance

“Resist any struggle over the inheritance left by your parents, education is the best gift parents can give as an inheritance “
Jeremiah and Esther Ademuyiwa

OFFERS

Services

In order to meet our financial needs we offer the following services :

  • Tailoring
  • Sowing
  • Baking
  • Hair plaiting
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  • Pillows
  • Bedsheets
  • Decorated Cup cakes for your child’s birthday and Nigerian meat pies
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Quotes

CITA FOUNDATION
Building the reading Skills

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”

Frederick, Douglas

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all

Jackline Kennedy ,

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

Margaret Fuller

“Resist any struggle over the inheritance left by your parents, education is the best gift parents can give as an inheritance “

Jeremiah and Esther Ademuyiwa

A book is a gift you can open again and again

Garrison Keillor

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

Frank Serafini

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Emilie Buchwald

One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children

Carl Sagan

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.

Strickland Gillian

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Kate DiCamillo

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Vera Nazarian

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

May Ellen Chase

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Victor Hugo

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Richard Steele

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Mark Twain

In Africa, poverty is not only about lack of resources, it is more about lack of possessing the right key through literacy

Adeola Ajayi

"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young."

Maya Angelou
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