Thursday, August 11, 2011

Hayya Naqra! (Let’s Read!) Brings Books to Palestine’s Neediest


Publishing Perspectives

American organization ANERA encourages reading among parents and children of the West Bank.
The initiative is part of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) program of US NGO American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA). ECD Director Sulieman Mleahat says: “Let’s Read is a multi-pronged initiative that seeks to promote reading and storytelling, but we also want to develop teacher and parental interest and skills in reading."
Mleahat is trying to make the activities of ordinary life, such as reading to primary school children, easier. Inevitably, of course, the political troubles of the region color everything


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