Guanajuato, Gto., May 18, 2017. Students and professors from the major in Spanish Letters and Philosophy of Campus Guanajuato, promote approaching books to elementary and middle schools in the city through the Program of Reading Encouragement, which has paved its way and generated a positive impact among the young students.

Dr. Asunción Rangel, scholar and coordinator of the program, reminded that it was on early 2016 when the program took a turn and decided to reach more children and teenagers.

In 2016, as an initiative of Dr. Elba Sánchez Rolón, (former Director of the Department of Languages at the University of Guanajuato) "the program could join all the activities of diffusion and divulgation made by professors and students."

She explained that from June 2016, "the program starts having presence with the social service doers, they bring to life the tasks, in the participations they have in elementary and middle schools in the city."

With almost a year of expanding their coverage to basic level public schools, the program has reached one middle school and three elementary schools, where hundreds of children and teenagers participated in several activities.

Mini workshops and talks in varied topics are the main activities of the program that Dr. Rangel says, "it is a very effective way and a noble social service and important liaison of the Department of Letters of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities and Campus Guanajuato with society."

Every time they visit a school, they create an hour-long activity promoting drawing or act fragments of appropriate stories.

The professors of the Department of Languages and Philosophy, have also participated in the program, they give a simple talk about a historical character, thinker, writer or philosopher such as Diogenes, Plato, among others.

In the elementary school Juan B. Diosdado, located in the San Clemente neighborhood, Dr. Beatriz Tovar Hernández, coordinator of the major in Philosophy, attended to talk with 4th graders and considered that, "bringing these workshops and have activities so the children interest for reading, philosophy and other topics is important and in the long term it will have a positive impact in society."

Ana Cristina Marín Fonseca, mother and promoter of the program in the latter elementary school, explained that, "the activities brought by the University of Guanajuato to the school, are enriching the project and we want it to continue, for our children to know more about topics that improve their education, plus we have notices that the children read more, they interact more in their classes and are defining their professions."