With pallets, colors and imagination, the teams of the Bilbao Family Residence of Sename Metropolitano erected a library for girls and boys between 7 and 13 years old.
There the Releamos Foundation and volunteer neighbors came to donate dozens of books, albums, short stories, novels, comics and supplementary reading to support the construction of that long-awaited space in which today is celebrated the “International Day of Book and Reading”.
Releamos is a non-profit organization formed by Francisca Torres and Elvira Rodríguez. They are defined as part of civil society mobilized by the promotion of readers and the promotion of the rights of vulnerable children and adolescents and seek to implement libraries in sename family residences and collaborate with community libraries from recovered books to be reread and thus give them a second life.
“Inviting a child to read in a friendly and comfortable space is very important for reading mediation and its promotion,” says Carmen Huenchumil, director of the residence, who explains that “we have some children with school lag and literacy issues, and this new material, reused and cured especially for the ages of children and their needs, is invaluable to our daily work,” he added.
Releamos’ representatives say that “we are convinced that through reading we can contribute to the restitution of the rights of children and adolescents who have been violated. Our goal is that the books that we select for these libraries are entertaining, stimulating and that meet the needs of each group, performing the corresponding curatories so that each reader meets those transformative readings that will allow him to develop the capacity to enjoy and explore the various possibilities of interaction offered by the books and, with it, recover the right to play and recreate.”
To collaborate on this project you have to write to releamos.donaciones@gmail.com or visit @releamos on Instagram.
