Brava: Responsible for the project “Brava'sLittle Libraries” initiates contacts for partnerships

The person in charge of the project “Brava's Little Libraries” (small free libraries, in Portuguese) is on Brava Island making contacts for “profitable partnerships” in the area of knowledge transmission through reading.

Izione Silva, a Brave native living in the United States of America, told Inforpress that the program aims to create “favorable conditions” for the “development of a love of reading and learning” among young people on the island, which saw it born.

He said that he came across the existence of an identical project in his neighborhood where he lives in the USA, and he saw in it a way of giving access to books to his countrymen from “every corner of Brava”.

According to “patrons”, through the project it has already been possible to send more than five thousand books to the island and, at the moment, there are already three small libraries in some equipped gardens of Nova Sintra, also pointing one in Cachaço and another in Lomba / Tantum .

For Izione Silva, the idea is, in addition to seeing the island as the “Island of Flowers”, to see it as the “island of readers”.

And for that, in addition to taking books to kindergartens on the island, there is a set of books at the Rodrigo Peres Municipal Library for consultation by children from Integrated Basic Education, who want to ask their parents to read, or even practice reading in the classroom. library.

These books come from Portugal and the USA, with the support of emigrants residing there, and those coming from the USA are visual books written in English intended for kindergarten schools where, with the help of parents or tutors, students “develop the pre-reading skills”, using the pictures/drawings as guides to create a story and the books in Portuguese are for all levels.

“In this way, the linguistic problem is overcome, given that students at this level still have not had any introduction to Portuguese”, considered Izione Silva.

According to the person in charge, all people from Brave will have access to the remaining books that will be available in the Municipal Library of the island.

Asked about the difficulties faced in maintaining and sustaining the project, Izione Silva revealed that so far the biggest challenges have been the lack of funds to establish the project “firmly” on the island.

In order to try to overcome these challenges, he is on the island looking for support and partnerships, in order to encourage children to “practice and acquire a taste for reading” with the bibliographies already available and to work to collect more abroad and forward it to the angry.

Since many people complain about young people's lack of interest in reading, Izione Silva said that he intends to create "virtual reading circles" for high school youth and adults in the community.

The idea is that participants read e-books and then participate in a discussion of their reading with a facilitator, who lives abroad.

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