Highland bookshelf

In recent years, to contribute to spreading reading culture and bringing knowledge to students and ethnic minorities, investment and library construction in schools and equipping knowledge and law bookcases in mountainous communes have always received attention.

Reading session at the library of My Thuan 2 Primary School, My Thuan Commune, Tan Son District

The green library of My Thuan 2 Primary School, My Thuan Commune, Tan Son District is always full of students reading books during recess. This is a youth project donated by Emulation Group No. 4 - Youth Union of Phu Tho Provincial Police to the school's teachers and students on the occasion of Youth Month 2023. The project has an area of ​​about ^20m2 , using wood and thatched roofs inspired by wooden houses on the highlands. The airy, windy space in the summer has become a place for students to read, participate in team activities and play.

Green Library space for outdoor reading for students

Ms. Dinh Thi Hoa - Principal of My Thuan 2 Primary School said: "Reading is a part of the curriculum implemented by the school with a duration of 1 period/class/week. Spreading the reading culture among students not only helps them access knowledge through books but also trains them in expressive reading skills, practice writing, and serve their learning."

Students enjoy and read attentively every time there are new books.

In addition to the green library, the school also has an indoor library with over 1,600 books of various genres such as: reference books, textbooks, law, education , stories, children's pictures... Phung Thuy An - a student of class 3B said: "I really like reading sessions at the school library. I get to read many books and look at pictures with my friends. We are always conscious of preserving new books to share with new students."

Not only schools, many localities have focused on building community bookcases to serve the people's reading needs and access to knowledge. Building community bookcases is one of the tasks of Project 6 "Preserving and promoting the fine traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic minorities associated with tourism development" under the National Target Program on socio -economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2021 - 2030.

Community bookshelf in Dong Cuu commune, Thanh Son district

Ngoc Dong Commune, Yen Lap District is one of five communes in the province that the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism supports with a community bookcase in 2022. The content of the book sources provides knowledge on law, health, culture, especially agricultural books suitable for mountainous soil such as: Beekeeping techniques, goat and rabbit raising, hill chicken raising, medicinal herbs... The bookcase has contributed to improving the spiritual life as well as gradually promoting the cultural value of reading to people in ethnic minority areas.

Officials and people of Ngoc Dong commune, Yen Lap district read books at the community bookshelf space.

The bookshelf is located at the commune People's Committee headquarters, convenient for cadres, party members and people to read and refer to. Ha Thi Thao (Zone 7, Ngoc Dong Commune, Yen Lap District) said: "The bookshelf has many interesting contents, suitable for all ages. Among them, many useful books such as legal education on marriage or prevention of child marriage are suitable for educating sex knowledge for teenagers in mountainous areas."

Books not only open up horizons of knowledge, helping readers experience different cultures without having to travel. Currently, schools and localities in mountainous districts have been investing more, providing more books, rich and diverse in genre and content. From there, actively contributing to the development of reading culture in ethnic minority areas, shortening the gap in cultural enjoyment between urban and rural areas, remote areas, between favorable and disadvantaged areas.

Thuy Trang

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