The Dominican Republic’s Children and Youth Library (BIJRD) Will Launch the Fourth Edition of

The Dominican Republic’s Children and Youth Library (BIJRD) Will Launch the Fourth Edition of Biblio-Verano (2012)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, June 29, 2012

This year, 600 young children and adolescents will participate in the summer camp that the Dominican Republic’s Children and Youth Library will hold during the month of July.

The activities will include games, creative art workshops, cyber contests, readings, dialogues, lectures, and the screening of films and documentaries. All are part of the program of activities that will be carried out to achieve the camp’s mission.

Starting on Monday, July 2, 2012, the Office of the First Lady and the Dominican Republic’s Children and Youth Library will hold the Fourth Edition of the Biblio-Verano 2012 Children and Youth Camp. This year, the theme will be ¡Reciclando con Valores! (Recycling with Values!). The goal is to instill in the participants the set of values that the Office of the First Lady is promoting among the Dominican families.

The activities will include games, creative art workshops, cyber contests, readings, dialogues, lectures, and the screening of films and documentaries. All are part of the program of activities that will be carried out to achieve the camp’s mission.

This year, the camp will include 5, 6, and 7-year old boys and girls in its 2:00 p.m schedule. Children between the ages of 8 and 13 years of age will start their activities at 8:30 in the morning, with games that are both healthy and entertaining.

The fourth edition of Biblio-Verano will provide the opportunity to address the importance of recycling in a general way. Every day, emphasis will be placed on a specific topic and on the best uses of recycling.

The children of the families with which the Office of the First Lady has been working will participate, as well as the library users who reside in San Carlos, Gazcue, Villa Juana, Villa Consuelo, Don Bosco, and Ciudad Nueva.

The activities programed in each of the library sections will be related to the central theme. They will include a selection of films and documentaries on the environment, which will be approached from different angles, and other age-appropriate films.

Special Activities

Nestlé Dominicana, Kimberly Clark, the Vida Azul Foundation, Colgate Palmolive, Refrescos Nacionales, Asociación La Nacional de Ahorros y Préstamos, and the Dominican Red Cross are some of the companies and organizations that will visit the library to jointly participate in the games and educational presentations with the other participants. They will also give away some of the products they promote.

As part of the camp’s activities, the children and adolescents will visit the Telecommunications Museum, and, together with personnel from the Ministry of the Environment, will take part in environmental visits to different parks within the city.

The camp’s main goal is to promote values and to teach participants to respect the environment with a view to preserving nature, as well as to show them the importance of recycling in a fun way, . ..

The camp’s main goal is to promote values and to teach participants to respect the environment with a view to preserving nature, as well as to show them the importance of recycling in a fun way, through games, workshops, readings, dialogues, lectures, audiovisuals, and artistic activities.

The camp also seeks to encourage the participants’ integration and to offer an opportunity for interaction that will provide a meaningful experience, in addition to promoting values such as solidarity, honesty, respect, perseverance, and humility in a climate of participation and healthy competition. Another goal is to teach them the importance of the library and to instill in them a love for books and the environment.

A group of 34 supervisors who are part of the Young Leaders Project and the users of the library, in addition to medical personnel, will be in charge of welcoming and supervising the almost 600 morning and afternoon participants who will take part in the activities throughout the entire month of July.