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nurturing a love of reading within families and promoting knowledge exchange across
generations.

Al Mansoori noted that the library is preparing to honour the winning families in the ‘Family

Reading Challenge – Second Edition.’ The competition was held with an aim to nurture the
culture of reading within families, encourage positive knowledge dialogue and contribute to
improving effective family communication, while providing innovative and sustainable solutions

to reduce family challenges.

Furthermore, she noted that more than 130 families participated in the challenge, with 12
families qualifying for the final stage and the top three being selected as winners. Along with

the challenge, various other workshops were also conducted, such as ‘Planning Family Reading’
and ‘Techniques for Documenting Family Activities to Support and Educate Participating

Families,’ in addition to various dialogue sessions that highlighted the success stories and
facilitated the exchange of experiences and knowledge.

In line with its commitment to foster a knowledge-driven work environment, ZHL introduced

the ‘Reading Corner’ initiative across FDF centres. The key goal of this initiative is to create a
cultural environment that motivates employees to engage in reading during working hours and
breaks. It also enables employees to reserve a reading corner for 10 minutes each day, which

helps to enhance job satisfaction, professional well-being, creativity and innovation.
Furthermore, a competition will be held under the initiative in three categories: Best Reading

Corner, Best Employee Reader and Best Content Presenter Reader. The annual award for the
winners of the competition will be presented during the Foundation’s annual ceremony.

The Foundation also conducts regular book exchange sessions for employees and library

visitors in order to foster cultural sharing and knowledge-based discussions among individuals.
Additionally, reading sessions and discussions are conducted, featuring writers, intellectuals
and experts to explore the recent literary and cultural publications and to exchange

perspectives and ideas.

The Foundation is dedicated to its role in developing a reading society that promotes
knowledge. It aims to encourage continuous learning among individuals, families and

employees to support the development of an educated and innovative society capable of
navigating future challenges and achieving sustainable social development through culture and

knowledge.

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