Incentivo à leitura como forma de desenvolvimento local

Abstract

Reading is an instrument of social emancipation, helping readers reach other horizons. The objectives were: to promote the interaction between the university and the local community, mobilizing the students and employees of the institution to donate books; to create a place dedicated to reading and to awaken and stimulate the habit of reading in the inmates of the Treatment Center of dependents studied by providing accessibility to books, comics and magazines. As methodology a campaign was launched to collect books through two main vehicles: e-mail and Facebook; the onerous acquisition of an obsolete refrigerator to allocate the books and other materials needed to make the space dedicated to reading, and dialogues were held with the inmates about the importance of reading. Before the implementation of the project, three visits were carried out in order to understand the reality of the addicted inmates and to make them aware of the importance of reading. In the implementation of the project the following steps were carried out: reforming and making the “book refrigerator”; encounter with songs; declamation of poetry, and an integration coffee. The main result obtained was the participation of the inmates, which was fundamental to develop the project.