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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…
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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…
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Rouzbahan Child-centered Library, an Addition to the Read with Me Family

Rouzbahan Child-centered Library started its activities in May 2019 in a village in Kalaleh, Golestan Province. This small library has been equipped and designed with the standards of a Read with Me child-centered library. The library will welcome…
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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…
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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……
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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…
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Mothers Learned the Fundamentals of Reading Aloud

IBBY president visits a read with me center
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The IBBY President visited Avay-e-Mandegar Empowerment Center

On 25 April 2019, Mingzhou Zhang, president of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) visited Avay-e-Mandegar Empowerment Center, a center covered by the Read with Me project. After having been informed about the activities…
Read with Me team with IBBY President
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The IBBY President: Read with Me Gave Me a Big Surprise

The President of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Mingzhou Zhang, visited the Institute for Research on the History of Children’s Literature and the Read with Me House on 24 April 2019 and was introduced to the different…
Poldokhtar Flood
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Read with Me Reaching Out to Children in the Flooded Poldokhtar

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 feel responsible to be around these children and lessen their pains. Therefore, on 22 April 2019, after the…

One Teacher, One Classroom, One Library Campaign

On March 2019, At the conference commemorating Mehdi Azar Yazdi held at the National Library and Archive of I.R. IRAN, the Institute for Research on the History of Children’s Literature announced the start of One Teacher, One Classroom, One…
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Happy Nowruz, the Persian new year!

Happy Nowruz, the Persian new year! Children of Saravan celebrated a colorful Nowruz festival! The children of Morad-abad village (Saravan, Sistan and Balouchestan) inspired by “Elmer, the Patchwork Elephant”, celebrated a very colorful…
Tree Planting Day in Iran
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Welcome Spring! – Tree Planting Day in Iran

Welcome Spring! The children of Read with Me Cabin-library in Salas Babajani, Kermanshah, celebrated the National Tree Planting Day on the 6th of March. The librarian, children and their parents planted 40 seedlings around the library and…