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Mobile Puppet and Toy Museum Visits Azarestan Factory

Azarestan Construction Co.’s factory, had a special event planned last Friday. It was unlike any other Friday the factory had ever seen because the Mobile Puppet and Toy Museum team came to the factory. Puppets, children, worker’s families…
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Omid, Library of Hope

Read with Me established Omid Library in Bashagard, Hormozgan and started its activities in June 2019. Bashagard is located in the east of Hormozgan, 300km from the center, surrounded by villages. Because it is far from the center and lacks…
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Read with Me Workshops in the Flooded Khouzestan

Reaching out to children in crisis is one of the fundamental goals of the “Read with Me” program, which is why Read with Me experts are responsible to be around these children and assuage them. Therefore, ever since the beginnings of the…
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Navid-e-Vahy, the Second Child-centered Library in Qeshm Island

A Valuable Step for making Qeshm an Island for Children In Spring 2019, the establishment of “Navid-e-Vahy” Child-centered Library in Dargahan, introduced another stage of the Read with Me program in Qeshm Island. This child-centered library…
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Read with Me establishes yet another library: Kaveh Child-centered Library

A year into the implementation of the Read with Me program in Kuhrang, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Read with Me has now extended its activities in this region by establishing a child-centered library. Last autumn, during the 2018-19…

JahadAbad Children’s Step Towards Knowledge

A Report of the Improvement of Out-of-school JahadAbad Children  Date: March 2019 It’s only been a few months since JahadAbad children entered the classroom and now they are full-fledged students! JahadAbad is a village in the marginal…

Children at Mehr-o-Mah Empowerment Center, in Search of their Island of Happiness

The Island of Happiness, a book written by Marit Törnqvist, tells the tale of a girl in search of happiness. Due to its poetic, philosophical content and exquisite illustrations, this book won the award for best illustrated book of Flanders…
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Farhang Child-centered Library, A Library for All Children

Pass through this colorful corridor and you arrive at Farhang Child-centered Library. It’s as if Elmer, the patchwork elephant is welcoming children from the very start: “Welcome! This is a place for celebrating and accepting differences……

A Tireless Teacher in Sistan & Balouchestan

His name is Ahmad. A tireless teacher from Hirmand, Sistan & Balouchestan. Where children are experiencing a very hard life. But Ahmad gives hope to his students by taking them to the nature and reading books and talking about the stories.…

A Teacher Who Believes in the Magic of Words

His name is Ahmad. A teacher from Hirmand, Sistan & Balouchestan. He teaches the sixth grade at an Elementary School. He is the sort of teacher who knows the village. He knows its children. Because he has once been one of them. On the other…
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Read with Me will be introduced at the International Library of Children’s Literature in Japan

The Read with Me Program will be introduced at the International Library of Children’s Literature in Japan as the 12th lecture from a series of lectures entitled: What’s happening with Children’s Books in the World? On 16 June 2019, in…
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Sepehr Child-centered Library brings new light to the education of Kerman villages

GhassemAbad, an arid village in Kerman Province, has been struggling with drought and economic issues for years. With an agriculture-based economy, this village consists of houses in between fields and palm trees. Before Mehr-e-Taha Charity…