2020 Subaward - Cochabamba Chapter - Club y Talleres de Lectura

Chitisitos Reading Clubs and Workshops (Club y Talleres de Lectura Chitisitos) 

Chapter:  Cochabamba, Bolivia & PartnersCampus San Simón, 

Location of the Grant:  Cochabamba, Bolivia

Duration:  9/6/21- 12/27/21 

Description of the Grant:  This program aims to develop a children's reading community with critical thinking, transformation, and active action in favor of environmental integrity, economic viability, and fair society. Through reading clubs and workshops for children, the program will consist of the six topics that will cover Human Rights, sustainable education, and sustainable lifestyles such as, gender roles, promoting people’s rights, and environmental protection. The program hopes to empower eighty children, fifty from the urban, and thirty children from the rural part of Cochabamba. The program will also organize and set up a reading space with their sustainable libraries in the Marquina Agrarian Union, specifically in Marquina's School and in the OTB Unión K'asa Huasa located in the southern part of the city, as well as carry out a campaign to collect books for sustainable libraries in the two communities. This program is essential due to the impact COVID-19 has had on the child population from Cochabamba. Due to the pandemic, classes and educational activities have been paused and although virtual education has been attempted, many students lack the proper technological resources to continue with their education. As inequality in Cochabamba is very marked in rural and urban communities, it is important to implement a program as this that will create a place where children can learn about their rights, learn about how to deal with social, biological, and economic conflicts through reading.  

Key Audience:  Fifty children who are 6 to 12 years old and with access internet from the urban community of Cochabamba. And thirty children in social vulnerability, who are 6 to 12 years old from the communities of Marquina, and the OTB Unión K'asa Huasa. 

Key Partners:  International Network of SDG Promoters, Celso Herbas Espinoza, Departmental Chamber of the Book of Cochabamba, Scientific Society of Students of Social Communication UMSS, PartnersCampus San Simón

Tags:  Education, Technology, Arts, Storytelling, Community Empowerment, Literacy, Early Literacy, Books