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The Story of Hamzeh Abu Slaih, our reading ambassador in Madaba, Jordan Gather the kids around, pick a book from your bag, read out the words, show the drawings and the pictures, spread the happiness everywhere, and little by...

The story of Aya Mustafa , our reading ambassador in Norway On Saturday April 21, 2018, we held our first We Love Reading session in the public library of my city. At first, I was a little bit nervous...

The story of Gabriela Patoska, WLR Ambassador in Macedonia As a part of the Pennsylvania Abroad program, a group of students from the University of Pennsylvania visited the We Love Reading head office in Jordan in May 2018. The...

Story of Liliana Rodolao, WLR Ambassador in Argentina My name is Liliana Rodolao and I’m from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I found out about the We Love Reading initiative thanks to my son’s teacher, Cristina. She asked her students to...

The story of Huong Dang, our reading ambassador in Vietnam. It all started with a skype meeting with Dr. Rana Dajani. A group of Vietnamese psychologists and educators in France expressed their excitement in supporting We Love Reading in...

The story of Farzaneh Shahrtash, our reading ambassador in Iran Farzaneh Shahrtash, a children’s books publisher, is working together with Esmaeel Azari to promote the love of reading in remote areas in Iran. Farzaneh, an activist in her country,...

على قدر أهل العزم تأتي العزائم …… وتأتي على قدر أهل الكرام المكارم وتعظم في عين الصغير صغارها ……. وتصغر في عين العظيم العظائم The words of Abi Al-Taieb Al-Moutanabi, one of the greatest Arabic language poets, brought many...

Me and my sister volunteer at a kindergarten in our neighborhood. One day, I found a flyer on the ground of the classroom, about a We Love Reading training. I liked the name of the training and thought this...