PRCS Organizes the National Reading Week in the Gaza Strip

(Gaza, 4 April 2012): The Psychosocial support programme at PRCS organized a series of events and activities in the Gaza Strip to mark the National Reading Week. Events were organized in cooperation with Tamer Educational Institute with the participation of tens of children and under the supervision of PRCS professionals and volunteers.

A number of educational and recreational activities were thus organized including “Al Hakawati” story telling, whereby stories are read to children who are then invited to tell them in their own way, book donations, “My First Book”, “A Friend Teaches a Friend” and “My Father Reads” activities as well as poetry recitals.

Radwan Halaween, a psychologist at PRCS, said that PRCS endeavors to harness its capacities to ensure the success of this Week and promote reading amongst children. Mohamad Al Saftawi from Tamer Institute said that these activities were organized in cooperation with PRCS to promote reading, attract children to books, teach them how to read stories and express what they have read in different artistic and educational ways.

Participating children underlined how happy they were to take part in this Week. “I have truly benefited from events held during the first day of this Week, and I’d like to take part in other activities during the remainder of the Week in order to learn how to tell stories and to be able to read various books”, Rimaz Hamadeh (10), said.

It is to be noted that the National Reading Week is organized throughout Palestine in cooperation with tens of local institutions in order to promote reading, enhance children’s reading skills and encourage them to buy books and stories.