05/23/2026
On May 22, Dr. LeAnn Johnson helped organize and present the first Literacy Leaders Conference – Kenya at the Mavoko SNP school in Mlongo, Kenya. The conference theme was “Creating a Culture of Reading”. As an outgrowth of Shepherd’s annual Literacy Leaders Conference and the “Feeding their Minds” school library project which is using a combination of donated books and funds to create a small school libraries where there have been no books, teachers and administrators from the participating schools shared the successes and challenges each have experienced.