By Paco Alcaide | Regional director
"I am capable to teach another mothers about Reading Early childhood stimulation anf how they could use reading books to improve a good practices in nutrition ", says Ingrid, a volunteer of Ventanas abiertas al Futuro Community Library in Chiché.
For rural communities in Central America, opportunities to change the life one is born into are hard to find. But for those who learn to read and enjoy a love of books. something powerful can happen, that takes them places never dreamed of.
Riecken Libraries promote reading in children and adults by making it fun and accessible. Librarians, volunteers, and parents are trained on how to read aloud and story time techniques. This training and the practice of reading aloud helps children develop a positive relationship with reading from an early age.
The Riecken Guatemala Foundation empowers young people to promote community health through its network of community libraries.
The Riecken Foundation believes that reading to children from an early age (0-5 years), stimulates the mind, develops language, and builds a base to ensure the success of reading in the future. The parents are childrens’ first teachers; so they need to be provided with tools and activities they can do with their families to promote reading at an early age and develop a reading habit that will continue throughout life
All Riecken Community Libraries, as Ventanas abiertas al future library, offer early childhood development and nutrition programs, quality books and safe places to read and learn, support for skills taught by the schools, story circles and more, Riecken Community Libraries brings opportunity to underserved regions of Central America that need it most!
And the best result is that women feel emotionally prepared to support other women with self-improvement needs. In addition, children between 1 and 6 years old, develop reading skills at home.
Learn more about the work of the Riecken Foundation and its network of community libraries in Guatemala.
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