MiCultura installs more than 10% in Reading Spaces

The Ministry of Culture has been able to put into place 32 "Readying spaces" up to April, with the aim of achieving a country "free from poverty and inequality."

The opening of these spaces began at the end of March at the Retirement of Olas Ajo, in the area of Capira, as Minister Carlos Aguilar Navarro made his first opening at national level and then continued to Panama Province, especially in the Retirement of San Miguelito, where up to date eight spaces have been found in Retirement of Mateo Ituri, Arnulfo Arias, Omar Torrijos, Amelia Denis de Icaza, Belisario Frías, Belisario Porras and Victoriano Lorenzo.

Expand the scope of the Colmena Plan in West Panama, MiCultura visited the Corridments of Arraijan Cabecera, Burunga and Veracruz, where his deputy ministers of culture, Gabriel González, put three spaces, in which the community will be able to share and get to know our national authors through 120 books and 41 titles accompanying this project.

Also, in Bayano, Bas Güera, Mogollón, La Tronosa, Alto Güera, El Cortezo, from the province of Los Santos, were inaugurated simultaneously, six spaces by the highest cultural authorities, while in that same province the communities of Espino Amarillo and Bahia Honda received the books and tools of reading by President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen and the title of culture, Carlos Aguilar Navarro.

"Reading helps you to imagine, visualize and dream of a better, different and beautiful world. No matter how far the place is, the idea is to support the Colmena Plan that the National Government has and that was created by President Laurentine Cortizo Cohen, with the aim of developing the habit of reading, that everyone have access to them, regardless of age," says Gabriel González.

The Deputy Minister of Culture at his visits reaffirms that we have to "ensure that reading spaces are for children and for all ages and that they are inclusive and that they are all well received. Creativity can be increased through reading, and that these children can gain knowledge so that MiCultura thank community volunteers who will help us to transmit all this knowledge to these communities."

The provinces of Coclé and Herrera also have these "mini libraries" that have been recently opened at locations in the area of Olá (El Palmar, La pava, El Copé, Olá padera and El Picacho) and in the area of Penonomé (Toabre, Tulú, Chiguirí Arriba) and La Pintada (Llano Grande and Piedras Gordas) at Coclé.

While Herrera's Readings of the Cirduelo de Pesé (Pesé District), Los Cerritos de los Pozo and Los Pozo Cabecera were opened in the Readiness of the Readings at Herrera.

To achieve this activity as part of the Colmena Plan, MiCultura aims to open up up up up to December 300 reading spaces throughout the national territory with more than 336,000 works by Panamanian authors, all winners of national literature competitions, and they will be run by community volunteers who have been trained by the Cultural Rights and Citizenship Directorate of the Cultural entity, as mediators and reading animators with the support of authorities, local organisations and our regional co-ordinations.

In this respect, Carlos Aguilar Navarro, Minister of Culture, emphasized that "MiCultura through this project of the Colmena Plan, aims at the transformation of the country, because in each of these corrections where we have been with these books, that 20 children become reading lovers, is a contribution to improving the situation of poverty through culture."

"That work with the communal boards that give us a space and with the volunteers that are trained by MiCultura personnel will continue, because through our regional co-ordination we will give them monitoring and if possible we will be able to bring them more books and more workshops, to expand these mini libraries, because this contributes to the development of the nation, to building citizens that will have access to the book and reading," emphasized the regent of Panamanian culture.

The aim of the Colmena Plan is to organize the comprehensive implementation of public policy independently through the intersectional and intersectional offer that guarantees to the public the right to development. The idea of these spaces of reading as a local or local body is that they can become small centers of promotion and training, representing a educational area in places where there are currently no libraries.