Providing Doctors with Books for Toddlers

‘Book on Prescription’ is the project where we provide doctors with books for toddlers. It integrates the promotion of the reading habits among children into preventive medicine. The main concept is recommending daily reading to children, their parents and caregivers by medical staff. Our long-term goal is to promote health and proper emotional and intellectual development of the little ones.
We work to train doctors and prepare materials, so hospitals and doctor’s offices can become places where children meet books and have an easy access to them, and their parents aknowledge the importance of reading together. To carry out these mission, book resources are the crucial point.

In recent months we have managed to donate more than 80 packages with 90 books each to the doctors working in hospitals and medical centres in Poland. Altogether, we provided them with 7200 books that reached Polish children, alongside with helpful materials and customized prescription pads, so patients aged 0 to 5 receive a book with a prescription for daily reading.
From the doctors benefiting from our project we received a positive feedback – they see the value of this initiative and the children – love the books.  

In December, in partnership with the Book Institute, Polish organization, we organised an online course for midwives and medical staff working with pregnant women: ‘The power of reading aloud. The impact of early reading intervention on children's health and development'. The training was attended by 1,000 people so far.

We want to continue our work and be able to send out books to every doctor who approaches us with the need to give them to their patients, especially little children from smaller towns or low-income families or refugees, who benefit from public health care. We will manage to do that only with the support of our donors!

Reading aloud to children every day, and the conversation that comes with it, is an inalienable foundation for their emotional stability, social competence and intellectual development. Introducing such a habit from birth yields significant results! 

Thank you for your commitment and support to the project!