Gyeonggi Province Selects 100 Locations for ‘Sharing Books and Dreams’

Gyeonggi Province Selects 100 Locations for ‘Sharing Books and Dreams’

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Gyeonggi Province Selects 100 Locations for ‘Sharing Books and Dreams’

Reading can help people avoid becoming trapped within subjective viewpoints that come from obtaining information through direct experiences or other mediums. As we enter an era with high media exposure, reading has become even more crucial.

Reading offers the advantages of accessing expert knowledge as well as a wide range of refinements, building one’s spiritual world, and enabling personal growth.

Accessing reading materials, however, may be difficult for some people.

Therefore, Gyeonggi Province has selected 100 sites – including the Dreams Come True Children’s Center in Namyangju City – as locations for its ‘Sharing Books and Dreams’ project, through which the provincial government provides books and reading programs to vulnerable social groups at risk of literacy exclusion.

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‘Sharing Books and Dreams’ is an initiative that develops book lists for a range of topics through book curation (the selection of several books germane to a certain topic and suggesting them to readers). First launched in 2020, ‘Sharing Books and Dreams’ oversees the donation of 100 books suitable for users of institutions within the province, thereby providing access to books for people at risk of low literacy exclusion such as multicultural facilities and the residents of assisted living facilities.

Selected institutions are provided with book donations as well as reading programs.

Reading and special lectures are integrated with the concept of ‘read and play’ to provide instructional reading activities to participating institutions, and the project provides aid to each institution so as to enable reading activities through associated kits.

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In addition, Gyeonggi Province will select an additional 100 locations in the second half of the year and donate a cumulative total of approximately 20,000 books before the end of the year.

Gyeonggi Province recently held a ceremony for the delivery of 100 books and snacks to the Dreams Come True Children’s Center in Namyangju City, which was one of the institutions selected for the ‘Sharing Books and Dreams’ project on August 6. Namyangju’s Dreams Come True Children’s Center has been operating programs for 33 children in need of afterschool care, enabling them to study through book donations and reading programs.

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Gyeonggi Province seeks to foster changes and opportunities for its residents through continuous access to books, cultivating the joy of reading by supplying books and hands-on reading culture programs to institutions through this book-sharing initiative.