From "Love Kitten" To Child Literacy

Here's a CNN article: From "Love Kitten" To Child Literacy. It's about a librarian, Yohannes Gebregeorgis, who believes reading will save Ethiopia. A quote:

"Children could imagine everything from books -- connections to other cultures, to other people, to other children, and to the universe at large," recalls Gebregeorgis. "It gives them hope. It gives them pleasure. It gives them everything that they cannot otherwise get in regular textbooks."

We may not have the wherewithal, either financial or educational, to set up our own libraries, like Mr. Gebregeorgis has done. But we can read to our children. We can read to our nephews and nieces. We can expose them to books. We can read for ourselves, and let the younger ones see us doing so. If everyone did this for their families, it would have an effect equivalent to having a well-used library. Like Mr. Gebregeorgis, I believe only good things can happen from reading.