Building Lives Full of Wonder!

The importance and value of reading is widely acknowledged yet books are a rare luxury in many Serbian children’s homes, especially in rural communities. Prosledi Knjigu (Pass The Book!) aims to give these children access to books that will fire their imagination, inspire confidence and encourage ambition as well as igniting a lifelong love of reading.

The project is essentially a mobile library for small village schools with no libraries and few resources. Each school is given a ‘Box of Wonderful Books’, the contents having been vetted and approved by one of Serbia’s foremost children’s librarians. Each quarter, the boxes move to a new school, ensuring that the books get wide usage and the children continually have new literary worlds to explore.

As of March 2020 we have welcomed 13 schools to the project. The teachers are reporting that the children's vocabulary starts to improve within 3 months of the first box arriving.

Now we have our sights on more village schools in the next country -Gornji Milanovac. We're talking to 7 village schools about taking part and need to buy another 400 books, plus wooden boxes, reading diaries and prizes for the best little readers in each school.

Every donation, however small, has the potential to change a young life! Thank you

Melissa Geddes/Djukic

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