We Love Reading organized a session titled ”Working with Government to Foster Social Entrepreneurship” during Catalyst Change Week 2023.
During this session, the Minister of Culture in Jordan Her Excellency Haifa Al-Najjar and We Love Reading founder Prof. Rana Dajani along with We Love Reading Ambassadors Jameeleh Abu Melhem and Tamam Hiary discussed the critical role that effective collaboration between the government and civil society plays in enhancing social leadership.
The session delved into the national reading campaign initiated by “We Love Reading” in partnership with the Jordanian Ministry of Culture, proudly under the patronage of Her Excellency Minister of Culture Haifa Al-Najjar. This campaign seeks to spread reading for fun all over Jordan and to change mindsets through reading to nurture changemakers.
During this campaign, hundreds of reading sessions were held by We Love Reading ambassadors all over Jordan.
During the event, Minister of Culture Haifa Al-Najjar shared her insights, stating, “I Believe in research and learning by avoiding rote methods, and in the necessity of liberating children from grades and labels in education, recognizing that they are greater than the label and that they are agents of change”.
She continued, ” When a person provides a sustainable model within a genuine concept of service through experiences, qualitative cumulative learning, and collaboration with others while respecting their identity and thinking alternatively, they can offer a successful model to the world.”
WLR Ambassador Tamam Al-Hiary emphasized the importance of state institutions supporting projects like “We Love Reading,” highlighting that they have a profound impact on humanity. She further elaborated, “We Love Reading promotes mental health, the ability to express in children, linguistic fluency, and emotional intelligence—qualities we direly need today.”
WLR Ambassador Jamila Abu Melhem who had the highest number of reading sessions during the campaign shared her personal experience as A WLR ambassador and a change maker, saying, “When I read a story, I don’t just read it to the children; I read it to myself, letting my imagination soar alongside them. This is what makes me feel like I’m evolving and developing with them.”