Greetings, everyone,
If you remember from this post, @hlezama/ulog-048-giving-back-to-a-community-left-behind, 20 days ago I was part of a beautiful initiative organized by my-pupil-now-colleague Yeny Gonzalez. She has been visiting this community for some time now, giving these children all kinds of recreational gifts.
I decided to join her in this crusade and add reading children’s books to the equation. I put together a bunch of used books we had, some of them a bit torn and beat-up, glued them here and there, and gave them away to these kids, who received them as happily as it can be. The turnout was so good that we ran out of books and some kids were demanding their share. So, I promised them I’d send more books for them.
Last week I gave Yeny a bag with more books and this is was the result. I could not be any happier.
We are already organizing a 3rd session with 4 more volunteers, young professionals who were part of my Children’s Literature Course at UDO, will be joining us next month with more books to read and hopefully with some good snacks.
The rewards generated by this post will be used to help cover the logistics. Thus far, Yeny herself have been providing the snacks thanks to her parents' donations from their home bakery.
I will keep you posted on our next reading sessions, which hopefully will gather new kids and parents, so that we can spread this newfound love for reading and storytelling.
As Yeny said in a message she posted, give a child a book and you'll have made his world different.
We are possitive, these kids will find in these books inspiration to want to make their world a more colorful one.
We want to think it is never too late to start making changes.
I have my weapons of darkness destruction ready! These are some of the books I plan to read to them next time.
Image sources: Images (except this last one) were taken by Yeny Gonzalez. I am using them here with her permission. First image modified at fotoram.io
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