A press conference will be held in Kyiv to launch the charity campaign "A book is better than a gadget". The initiator of the campaign is the "Care of Generations" charitable foundation.
There are 53 children's libraries in Kyiv, in which 163 children who want to develop and learn about the world through books are registered. 374 children are registered among readers.
For 2022, the city budget of Kyiv does not provide funds for the purchase of new interesting and educational books for children, which can be taken and read in libraries. Therefore, the goal of the campaign "A book is better than a gadget" is to collect one million hryvnias for the purchase of books for children and at the same time support small Ukrainian publishing houses.
The collected funds will be used to buy children's books from small and medium-sized publishers. The purchased books will be distributed by city libraries. Concerned citizens and business representatives will be able to join the campaign, buy books for children and support publishing houses.
At the press conference, competent specialists will talk about the state of the library fund in the capital, how the purchase of books for libraries will help update outdated funds. There will also be an online broadcast of the press conference, which everyone can join.
Speakers of the press conference: Viktor Goldskyi - founder of the "Comments" media group and head of the Masavi Publishing House;
Yana Bilenko - director of the Central Library named after T.G. Shevchenko for the children of Kyiv;
Tanya Stus - writer, child psychologist, head of the Children's Reading Laboratory "Barabuka" of the National Center "Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine";
Oleksandr Afonin - president of the Ukrainian Association of Book Publishers and Distributors, member of the Public Council under the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy;
Ihor Stepurin is the head of the NGO "Library Country". WHERE: Central Library named after T. G. Shevchenko for the children of the city of Kyiv (Peremohy avenue, 25-a), WHEN: 22.12.2021/11/00 at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m.
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