Madaa Creative Center - Silwan organized a day for library and reading in its three branches: “Main Branch Wadi Hilweh, Ein Al Loza Branch, and Batn Al Hawa branch” with the participation of tens of children.
The Library and Reading Day included several activities related to the library. In the main branch in Wadi Hilweh, Coordinator Hanadi Al-Abbasi said: “We presented and discussed children's audio and video stories and asked them questions. Children also read stories and discussed them with each other. The day of the library also included a performance of a play composed by the children, so that day the children gained new skills”.
At Ein Al Loza Branch, coordinator Abeer Al-Abbasi said: “On Library Day we distributed books to the children; each child chose a story and read it. Then we gave out two files for each of them, the first file contains the elements of the story and the second one is for the child to write the new words s/he learned from the story, each child then explained the story s/he had read and the lessons s/he had learned from it. As for children under 8, we have read and explained the stories to them, on this day children learned how to listen and to express themselves.”
At Batn Al Hawa Branch, coordinator Nemati Sanad said: “The children saw video and heard audio stories from Kalila and Duma, which are short stories told by animals that express a guiding moral. After that they drew the characters of the story, and then each child chose a story by its title and read it out loud to the other children. This helped children learn new information, as well as strengthen their personality by reading stories aloud to everyone.”
The social researcher at Madaa, Hanan Salim, said: “We chose a day for the library and reading at Madaa for several objectives, including: To introduce children to the library of Madaa, to broaden their knowledge of reading, to learn about educational values through stories, and to encourage them to read.”
Madaa Library offers many activities for children such as: creative writing, puppet shows, cultural competitions, reading stories for children and discussing them. In addition to coloring story characters, and screening documentaries for children, Madaa Library has recently introduced visual events, where the story is read in conjunction with the image of its characters on the screen. Additionally, the library provides children with the ability to borrow books.
Madaa Center opened its main library in 2007, where it began in a very modest way with a single bookshelf containing 20 children's books. To the Center's belief and faith that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step to be the first library in the town of Silwan, in 2009 the library jumped a qualitative leap, buying more than three thousand books covering all topics in Arabic and English, and now the number of books has reached to more than six thousand books. The library includes a special section for children, and an archive of major local and Arabic newspapers. In 2016, other branches of the library were opened in the Center’s branches of Ein Al Loza and Batn Al Hawa.
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