Early Childhood Literacy & Nutrition in Guatemala

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. But how libraries teach to parents?:

• Motivation to Books: parents learn about sparking the interest in children to enjoy books, with the purpose of promoting an approach to them.
• Becoming familiar with the writing: parents learn about how engage the children with reading, use exercises that show drawings, shapes, people, and animals, not only with figures but with written words.
• Knowledge of sounds: parents learn how they can help children to acquire the ability to hear and play with sounds.
• Narrative skills: parents can relate stories and tales to children and help develop the skills in reading readiness.

All Riecken Community Libraries 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!