24 June

THE Information and Public Re-lations Department  (IPRD)  of  the Ministry of Information and, the Basic Education Department (BED) and Tachilek District man-agement  department  will  hold  the  Children’s  Literary  Festival  (Tachilek)  on  a  grand  scale  on  25 and 26 June at the Basic Ed-ucation  High  School  in  Makaho  Hkam Ward, Tachilek.

The festival will be held with the goal of nurturing children to become  life-long  learners  and  book lovers, to have the habit of working in unity with others, and to  become  future  leaders pos-sessing a high level of knowledge and ability.

The festival will open 19 edu-cative booths for broadening the children’s  scope  of  knowledge,  apart from culture booths of eth-nic  races  including  Shan,  Lahu  and Arka.

Talks  and  round  table  dis-cussions  on  literature  will  also  be held at the festival, and they will  be  opened  to  all.  The  festi-val will be further enlivened with book  shows,  book  sales,  poem  recitation  contest,  storytelling  contest, extempore talks, paint-ing contest, paper folding contest, proverb solving contest, football match and other traditional com-petitions.

Students of schools in Tachil-ek  will  also  perform  entertain-ment  programs  at  the  festival,  which  will  also  stage  elephant  dances for the public.

The  Ministry  of  Informa-tion,  the  Ministry  of  Education  and the respective local govern-ments jointly held the children’s literary festivals in Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay,  Mawlamyine,  Taung-gyi,  Monywa,  Yangon,  Pathein,  Myitkyina  and  Bago.  Addition-ally,  the  local  governments  in  cooperation  with  IPRD,  BED,  social  organizations,  book  lov-ers  and  well-wishers  also  held  the  festivals  in  district  capitals.—  Aung  Min  Han  (Translated by TMT)