Traveling Library: Biographical month!

TRAVELING BOOKS

We travel to where we can connect, imagine and create together.

“Traveling books” reaches out to communities every year to serve children, youth, grandmothers and families.Through books we connect with the communities while exploring multiple subjects that foster leadership, critical thinking, empathy, inclusion and literacy. And now we kick off our Libros Viajeros 2022 campaign that will enable us to maintain our connection with communities through books and creativity.

Biographical Month

In the last weeks of the school year in Atitlán, we dedicated some time to explore various biographies during story time with the girls, boys and grandparents of the community. 

We met great characters such as: Frida Kahlo, Rigoberta Menchú, John Lennon, Pura Belpré, Claude Monet and Sara Curuchich. Connecting with the community through the trajectory of the characters has been motivating. Each participant identified with the  talents, struggles and the ways of thinking of the people we studied. They also learned how to be a conscious, empathetic and an activist person. 

During story time with the pre-primary grade, Valentina shares with us: "When I grow up I want to be like Pura Belpré, because I love storybooks. Now I'm learning to read and now I can learn more stories. Someday I will be able to have my own library and tell stories in my community like Pura did." 

Learning about the lives of important characters fosters in readers a broad knowledge of ways to subsist in their community from their environment with their own efforts. 

Therefore, in the Mobile Library program we value the collection of biographical books because it fosters in the reader a reflection on opportunities and diverse skills, talents and ways of living in the world. 

A biographical book is a window of opportunity for the community. When you support the Open Door library, you bring more biographical books to more people in the community, such as the Traveling Books initiative.