{"id":7314,"date":"2015-07-07T10:21:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:21:32","slug":"noti5819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti5819\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblio-Camp 2015 Gets Underway with Fun Activities in Store"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/TD>\n | <\/TD> \n | \n Biblio-Camp 2015 Gets Underway with Fun Activities in Store<\/STRONG> W<\/SPAN>ith great enthusiasm and joy, this summer\u2019s annual Biblio Camp 2015 is getting underway at the Children\u2019s Library of the Dominican Republic (BIJRD in Spanish). Stories and activities about caring for the environment, children\u2019s stories, handicrafts, surprise visits and field trips all are part the this year\u2019s planned activities. <\/P> Pamela Alfau, events planner at the Children\u2019s Library, welcomed this year\u2019s participants. She said the camp is part of an idea to inculcate children with values promoted from the Vice Presidency of the Republic to the entire Dominican family Biblio-Summer Camp has two sessions in July, with children and adolescents from five to thirteen years of age, children of Library employees and regular visitors to the library as well as residents of Villa Juana, Don Bosco, Ciudad Nueva, San Carlos and Gazcue. <\/P> This is the sixth year camp is being held at the cultural center since it reopened in 2009 when Vice President of the Republic, Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez, created it with the goal of developing reading habits in children, while facilitating knowledge and literacy in the use and advantages of information.<\/P> Activities <\/STRONG> There will be creative recycling workshops as well as films, performances, lectures, dramatic readings, field trips, crafts, meetings with writers, a visit to the Maggi de Nestl\u00e9 School, and a meeting with Rufo, the mascot of the Leones del Escogido baseball team, to name a few of the many activities. To guarantee the safety of the campers, the BIJRD has made available its staff, comprised of two coordinators and twenty monitors. There will also be a team of nurses on hand and security officers from the Metropolitan Transport Authority. <\/P> Photos:<\/STRONG> |