Entries by editor96

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Dayan Library Is Now Open to Qaleh Morqi Children

Dayan Empowerment Foundation Dayan Empowerment Foundation is located at Qaleh Morqi district in southern Tehran. The district faces many difficulties due to being populated. It has been isolated because of the two railways that separate it from the rest of the city. It also lacks certain amenities such as educational, cultural and health centers. Dayan, […]

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Jiroft Celebrates the Establishment of Three School Libraries

On 3-4 July 2019, Jiroft in Kerman Province, experienced the opening ceremony of three school libraries with the cooperation of Education Office experts and Jiroft City Hall authorities. Mozhdeh Palashi, an active Read with Me teacher in Houkerd village was the trigger for establishing these libraries. Through her creative book-related activities, she exuded joy and […]

Read with Me, A Cool Breeze in the Hot Summer of Brick Kilns

Children of southern Tehran’s brick kilns, have been experiencing group reading sessions every summer for a few years now. A blessing made possible through Read with Me volunteers. Brick kiln workers migrate from far away villages and cities to southern Tehran every summer for 3 months and work in MahmoudAbad’s brick kilns. These workers comprise […]

The Reading Aloud Experience of A Creative Teacher

A creative teacher in Kousha House for Children, reads the book “I Am Not a Chair!” by Ross Burach to her preschool students. In this exciting Reading Aloud session, she includes so many different activities and discusses many interesting topics with children. “I Am Not a Chair!” is a book about a giraffe that everybody mistakes […]

I Am Not a Chair!: A Reading Aloud Experience

“I Am Not a Chair!” is a book about a giraffe that everybody mistakes for a chair. But he is not as self-confident as to tell them he’s not a chair, but a giraffe. At first he endures a smelly skunk and a heavy rhinoceros sitting on him and a snake wrapping around his neck. […]

A message from Patricia Aldana for Read with Me

September 2018 Dear Friends, Though we live so far apart, you in Iran and me in Canada, we both care very much about what happens to children and young people in our societies—especially those who suffer from poverty, isolation or mistreatment of any kind.‎ It seems to me that what you are doing is some […]