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4/15/25, 10:53 AM Family Development Foundation launches cultural initiatives through Zayed Humanitarian Library - Middle East News 247

The workshops covered various fields, such as the presentation of valuable books, awareness messages on
speed reading techniques and panel discussions to evaluate the practices for 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.

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