Ministry of Culture Donates More than 600 Books to the Community of Miches

Ministry of Culture Donates More than 600 Books to the Community of Miches
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 3/6/11

To assure that the more than 1,500 children and young people of Miches, in the province of Seibo, have access to national and international literature, Culture Minister José Rafael Lantigua, donated more than 600 books to the community’s new Rosa Julia de León Library.

“so that the young people don’t just have access to the books but also to the voices of the authors who wrote them,” said Minister Lantigua.

The Ministry of Culture will facilitate the maintenance of this new cultural space once it begins to function. The Ministry has committed to install various computers “so that the young people don’t just have access to the books but also to the voices of the authors who wrote them,” said Minister Lantigua.

This measure will benefit the main educational centers of this area, which includes the following schools: Padre Daniel, Lucas Guives, Los Franceses, the Asfalto, the Javilla and the Padre Daniel Secondary School.

The book were received by Miches’s Mayor, Gregorio Aquino, and the area’s Culture Manager, Sélvido Candelaria. The book donation included encyclopedias, novels, short story collections and biographies, among others.

Mr. Candelaria thanked the Culture Ministry for the gesture, saying “a book, just one book, is one of the best gifts anyone can give an institution or any person in society.”
The donation took place in the main office of the Ministry of Culture where Miches Mayor Aquino expressed his appreciation. “We can now renew a custom that is being lost in Miches – reading. We believe that, with the opening of this library, knowledge and reading will increase in our community.”

El Alcalde de Miches, Gregorio Aquino, el Ministro de Cultura, José Rafael Lantigua, el Gestor Cultural, Sélvido Candelaria, y el Director Nacional de Creatividad y Participación Popular, Yi-yoh Robles.