Summer reading camps

I'm in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for the month of September, with the Reading West Africa program.  Had a nice short meeting today with Amidou Konfe, the new librarian of Pobe library.  He had just spent the week in Sara village, assisting, and learning from, the summer reading camp.  He had been very impressed by the kids showing up Monday morning in their matching camp t-shirts.  The first day, he said, was a little hard, as everyone realized the reading levels of the kids was lower than expected.  But they worked hard all week, he said, and really managed to give lots of kids a huge boost in their reading abilities.  He was very impressed with the books of Fatou Keita, and saw that the kids were too.  He's ready now to implement something similar in Pobe next summer.