Let’s Get Children Reading!

To share with you the current situation at Mount Pleasant Library, I took a few photographs. Before we go inside, here is the Library entrance...

When you go inside, the children's section is on the left. There are a lot of old books that need repair, and more honestly, passed on or retired from the shelf.

Up to date tales for children are few, there are only a handful of worn modern readers. Our children today read differently, and the books of 20/30 years ago are not ideal for the less than avid reader.

African stories are few and even fewer in local languages. If we want to encourage children to read, we need to give them reading materials that are exciting and relevant.

Can you help repair or donate a book? 

Perhaps local publishers or distributers of books could donate a copy or two of any children’s books that they have? And with all the Christian book stores blooming across Harare, perhaps they have a few story books to give away? The more readers we cultivate the more books we buy. 

The space where we read. 

Old fashioned books our parents read!

Tired and torn!