To coincide with Sharjah's celebration of the title of the World Book Capital 2019, and to complement its efforts to reach the book for the largest segment of the Arab refugees, Kalimat Foundation for Children Empowerment, based in the Emirate of Sharjah, provided 20 libraries with 2,000 books to Syrian children in Za'atari camp in Jordan. Between the novel and the story and scientific and intellectual books.
The donation came in collaboration with BLOMENT to assist the refugees to strengthen their community centers in the camp, as part of the initiative adopted by the Foundation launched in 2017, to support the culture of Arab refugee and displaced children, and enable them to diversify sources of knowledge by providing them with knowledge titles in Arabic. In order to enrich their knowledge and enable them to their culture and Arabic language.
During its visit to the camp, the Foundation organized a variety of cultural activities targeting children of all ages. In cooperation with Kalimat and Bluemont Group, the Foundation presented a number of practical and theoretical workshops, as well as reading sessions, entertainment and educational events that brought children together on tales and knowledge. And human experiences.
Amna Al Mazmi, Director of Kalimat Foundation for Children Empowerment, explained that the initiative continues to provide various titles of books for refugee children, within the framework of its goals and strategies, which are to convey knowledge to new generations, and to strengthen their Arab cultures and link them more with the book.
“Many children suffer, because of their circumstances, from the absence of writers and sources of knowledge, and our role to be with them, because we believe in the great role they play in changing their lives for the better, and leading them to be actors,” said Kalimat. In their communities, they serve their homeland in the future through what they are learning, so we are keen to multiply the diversity and increase the number of books that we have provided to libraries, so that we are permanently close to children with knowledge, culture and language, because they are foundations that enrich their present and future. ''
The Foundation organized a series of events
Diverse cultural that targeted children
Of different ages