Traveling Library: We couldn’t be more thankful!

"TRAVELING BOOKS"

We travel to where you are to connect, imagine and create together.

"Traveling Books" reach out to communities each year serving children, youth, grandmothers and families. Through books we connect with communities while exploring diverse themes that foster leadership, critical thinking, empathy, inclusion and literacy. And so we kick off our Traveling Books 2022 campaign to maintain our connection to communities through books and creativity.

For a year our Open Books program was accompanying more than 30 teachers from different schools, organizations and libraries working with groups of children in different communities in Guatemala.

In this way we celebrate our achievements and efforts for the connections and alliances we have created through the story hours model of the Mobile Library program in professional open book workshops.

During the process we were able to share with each of the teachers through their practice story hours with their groups of children. This helped us to immediately and accurately address each teacher's needs and some more in-depth guidance to the storytime program, from selecting a good book for the audience to thinking about open-ended questions and connecting activities that can be done during a storytime session. 

We were very happy to see that many books and stories reach many communities and families through the teachers and that this has a high impact on their lives at an early age. 

Surely during the break time they will be able to have access to the stories to appease the new socialization experiences after years of pandemic. 

To all our friends, families and donors thank you for making it possible for our program to generate more opportunities for communities and diverse professional groups in Guatemala. 

Every day our story hours spread their wings in different places and corners of Guatemala through the reading of our Mobile Library project. When you support the Puerta Abierta library, you bring reading to more people in the community, such as the Libros Viajeros initiative.