The Board of Trustees of Kalimat Foundation for Children’s Empowerment (KF), the Sharjah-based non-profit organisation that seeks to ensure the basic right of every child to read and to have access to books, met today to discuss and analyse the KF’s annual report.

Sheikha Bodour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Founder and Chairperson of KF, presided over the meeting, which was held at the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF 2017).

During the meeting, possible ways to provide underprivileged refugee children from around the world with intellectual and cultural support through the establishment of children-public-libraries was discussed.

In 2017, KF has provided 5,700 books directly to children worldwide, donated 3,500 books, and produced 30,000 books to support differently abled children. These books include 10,000 books each in the categories of braille, audio and large print books. The Foundation also distributed 400 books as part of ARA initiative.

In September this year, they distributed 2,000 Arabic books to 25 public libraries across Sweden. As part of their ‘Our Eid with Them’ campaign in the UAE-Jordan Camp in Mrajeeb Al Fhood in Jordan, they distributed Eid Al-Adha gifts to 2,000 children Throughout its array of projects, Kalimat Foundation is dedicated to ensuring every child’s right to read, and to adopting books as the ideal way to develop children’s intellectual and social capabilities positively. It believes in the positive impact of books on creating a future knowledge-based generation, and it is committed to launching and implementing initiatives that facilitate the provision of public libraries and refugee camps with books, as well as giving children in disadvantaged areas access to sources of knowledge.