{"id":4048,"date":"2016-05-12T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2022-12-06T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:39:53","slug":"lets-celebrate-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/lets-celebrate-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"This Book Week, let\u2019s celebrate reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Book Week in Canada and the country is celebrating the importance of reading.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re celebrating too, because last month we opened another school library in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

At imagine1day we\u2019ve long encouraged reading in our supported schools. We\u2019ve supplied over 66,000 books, created reading corners in classrooms, and recently, started constructing full libraries in our new schools.<\/p>\n

The latest is at Shallo Primary School, located in Southern Ethiopia\u2019s Sinana District, which we inaugurated last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so happy to have this new school, because this new school includes a library,\u201d says 13-year-old Tegan Beyena.<\/p>\n

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Tegan Beyena. 13 with his favorite book.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of different books in this library. It creates opportunities to get reference books and improve my grades.\u201d<\/p>\n

The aspiring English Professor points to his favorite book; Classroom Language: How to speak in English<\/em>, written, coincidentally, by Haleform Gezaei.<\/p>\n

Haleform is a former principal\u00a0and now imagine1day\u2019s Program Coordinator for the Tigray Region.<\/p>\n

Fellow student, Shamsiya Kemal, 12, (pictured above)<\/em>\u00a0is also delighted with the new library. \u201cI love the opportunity to read so many different books. I read every chance I get.\u201d<\/p>\n

The library\u2019s fiction books have motivated her to join her school\u2019s media class, where students come together, write plays and perform them for the community.<\/p>\n

This year imagine1day is building nine new full school libraries in Ethiopia, at a cost of C$320,625. You can help make these libraries a reality by donating today.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagine1day.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}