A delegation from the Big Heart Foundation, accompanied by a group of the We Love Reading team, visited the Emirati Muraijib Al Fhood camp in the Zarqa Governorate to review the We Love Reading activities in the camp, on 3/21/2022.
The delegation of the big heart foundation attended a reading session held by the We Love Reading ambassador Bayan Alasmi at Muraijib Al Fhood School, and the delegation commended her unique style of reading the story and the harmony between her and the children.
Then the delegation headed to the Mraijeeb Al Fhood Center for People with Disabilities and listened to a second reading aloud session which was held for the children with special needs.
Bayan left Syria back in 2013 and moved to Jordan and she is currently residing in Mrajeeb Al Fhood camp. Bayan has succeeded in obtaining a university degree with a specialization in Special Education She is currently working with children with special needs, and she has achieved outstanding success in helping kids with special needs.
Bayan who have received the We Love Reading training back in 2017 and she continued to hold reading aloud sessions on a regular basis, said that kids were so enthusiastic to listen to the story and the values
Reading stories made the children excited to hear the story, in addition to benefiting from the values in the story and embodying them in their lives, it also helped in increasing their self-confidence and they felt that they were represented in the story because the hero in the story is a kid just like them.
The delegation also visited the digital school that was recently launched to help children obtain e-education and digital skills, and visited Mama Fatima’s workshop and viewed the handicrafts made by the camp’s ladies. A collection of Mama the Storyteller’s book –the latest We Love Reading book- was also distributed in the camp.
