IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award 2024 winner
ATD (All Together in Dignity) Fourth World’s Street Libraries, nominated by IBBY France. Established in 1968, over 60 street libraries offer accessible opportunities for participation simply by using colourful blankets to establish spaces for reading and responding to books in public areas. Targeting opportunities for children to break the cycles of poverty through nurturing desire to learn and developing creativity, the French Ministries of Education and Culture, and the Depardieu Foundation, have offered 88,000 euros of support.
IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promotion Award 2024 Winner
The 2024 winners are: Basarat Kazim, from Pakistan, nominated by the IBBY Section of Pakistan, and Irene Vasco from Colombia, nominated by IBBY Canada.
Basarat Kazim’s nomination submitted by IBBY Pakistan notes that she is a “selfless committed humanitarian, an educator, a children ’s writer, social activist and die-hard advocate of reading in youth—an ordinary person doing extraordinary work”. Starting in 1978 with 500 students and one library, Basarat Kazim ’s innovative efforts have converted Alif Laila Book Bus Society into an entire movement with over 7000 libraries, benefitting 1 million children and training 1000+ teachers. Among many awards bestowed on her, Basarat was honoured with the 2023 Inspiring Woman Awards with the reputation of being one who turns everything into a children’s library because of the belief that every child in Pakistan should read. She converted camels, yaks, rickshaws, boxes, bicycles, motorbikes, all into libraries with her motto “Sky is the Limit.” Her influence can be seen in having trained 500 Teachers, 1000 Teaching Interns, 20 Creative Practitioners, and 200 Master Trainers. It is inspiring to note that Basarat has consistently been of aid to her country during times of devastation and destruction among much poverty. She showed innovative ways of meeting extraordinary needs during the pandemic and shifted to more of a literacy orientation.
Irene Vasco’s nomination submitted by IBBY Canada shows that since the 1980s she is a “Colombian children’s literature expert, lecturer, writer, and reading promoter ... Her participation in conferences throughout the South American continent and Spain has made her an international authority in reading promotion and a renowned author of children ’s and young people ’s literature in Colombia and beyond.” Irene is an influential heroine who faces challenges, reading to children in indigenous or dangerous areas, carrying books as her talisman. She collects stories of women, even on a bus. Her work is characterized as well-coordinated and well-conceptualized. She has shown innovation in numerous ways, from how she established “community home” small libraries in villages to how she uses a printing press to help understand alphabetic code.
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