São Paulo – A library with 100 books in Arabic was donated this Thursday (30) at the seat of the São Paulo state government, Palácio Bandeirantes, for the use of the Immigrant Citizenship and Integration Center (CIC), scheduled to open on September 4.
The Mobile Library of the Kalimat Foundation, an UAE-based NGO, includes books from renowned writers from the Arab country, from princess tales to literacy books illustrated with images of animals, for the public between 3 and 17 years old.
According to information by São Paulo state’s press office, the meeting was attended by the president of the Social Solidarity Fund of the State of São Paulo, Lúcia França, and the consul general of the United Arab Emirates in São Paulo, Ibrahim Salem Alalawi.
The donation was made within the actions done by the UAE in São Paulo due to the participation of the emirate of Sharjah as a guest of honor of the São Paulo International Book Biennial earlier in August. Other donations of the Arab library were done before this one.
According to the São Paulo state government, the initiative aims to bring closer the Arab and Brazilian cultures through reading. The Sharjah-based Kalimat Foundation for Children’s Empowerment, maintained by donations, is the one who builds the mobile libraries.
The Immigrant CIC will have a mobile library and a reading room at Água Branca Park, where the Social Solidarity Fund of the state of São Paulo is located.
Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
