Provide Quality Education to 15000 Amazon Children

In order to discuss with Vaga Lume’s volunteers how to improve the activities taking place in the community libraries near Barreirinhas, a city located in the state of Maranhão (northeastern of Brazil), as well as to train new reading mediators on the region, the Vaga Lume’s Meeting in Barreirinhas took place.

The Meeting gathered volunteers, which were able to get in touch with each other and share different experiences regarding the libraries management, strengthening their bonds and knowledge. They were also able to explore the entire book collection that Vaga Lume sends to the community libraries in order to discuss about varied themes within these books. 

After these introductory activities, the participants visited a local community library, named “Mundo da Leitura” (portuguese for “Reading World”) where the new reading mediators were able to practice their skills with more than 100 children from the local school. 

Barreirinhas is known for being the entrance point to the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, a famous tourist destination in Brazil. The participants of the Regional Meeting also had the opportunity to visit park as another way to better understand the local culture and the territory: “I’ve never imagined that I would get to know a place so beautiful, so rich and so different from where I came from” said Dijaik Neri, volunteer representing Tefé, a city in the Amazon State. 

The encounter was filled with the volunteers’ willingness to improve their work through the debate and exchanging best practices from their community. 41 people completed the reading aloud training and went back to their communities with even more energy to keep running the activities in the libraries.

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• Vaga Lume's facebook page
• Vaga Lume's website