The most satisfying feeling I get is when the number of children increases session after session. Also, many of them start to conduct reading sessions, which spontaneously spread the reading enthusiasm around me”, Leen Ayoub WLR ambassador.
Leen Ayoub attended We Love Reading training by chance in Zarqa governorate when she accompanied her mother Ahlam, who was receiving the training. She had not known her talent for reading and her love for books. But what attracted Leen the most was the We love Reading children’s books, which are designed with high quality to appeal to various categories of children, she started to browse them and focus on the training, much like the women who were trained in reading for children
“During the reading sessions, I feel like a leader, and WLR training gave me the chance to discover my abilities”, Leen pointed out. She adds that it brought many changes in her life and led her to think of each activity and work as making her feel like a leader. Additionally, it helped her discover her passion for the Arabic language and her ability to change her voice to adopt different voices in order to represent different characters in the story.
Layan says that the trainer in the “We Love Reading” program was the one who gave her the opportunity as a child to participate in the training and experience reading in practical sessions. They treated her not as a child, but as an adult, instilling in her the confidence to conduct reading sessions for children by fostering a sense of ‘I can’ during the training.
Additionally, Leen’s mother, Ahlam Abdel Qader, explains that she didn’t discover all of Leen’s skills before the “We Love Reading” training. The most noticeable change was the children’s disregard for phones when they engaged with the books and reading, which gave them a sense of satisfaction they didn’t get from spending hours on their mobile phones.