Education Minister Roberto Fulcar announced on Wednesday, 15 September 2021, that thousands of Bibles will be distributed this new school year to students in public schools of the Dominican Republic. Fulcar made the announcement when launching the Ministry’s “Dominicana Reads,” a national plan for the promotion of books and reading.
“We are going to distribute hundreds of classics and thousands of bibles, because we want reading in its broadest sense, because we want reading as an exercise of freedom, as a free exercise, as an exercise of love and as an exercise of self-confidence. Let no one tell us that this or that book should not be read,” Fulcar said in making the announcement.
During the launching of the plan at the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National Library, the Minister added that reading builds generations of free, transforming and tolerant men and women.
The National Plan for the Promotion of Books and Reading encompasses reading festivals, book exchanges of national and foreign authors and reading days in schools, among other activities to be developed during the next school year.
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16 September 2021