The Ministry of Culture and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) have awarded the prizes of the María Moliner Reading Animation Campaign in its XXIV edition. In the case of the Foral Community, five proposals have been recognized, which are awarded a prize of 2,777.77 euros each.
The María Moliner Reading Animation Campaign has awarded reading animation projects, with special attention to those who promote equal opportunities in access to books and reading to the most socially disadvantaged sectors, as well as the population with disabilities, elderly people, sick people, and also actions for digital literacy and those that encourage social and intergenerational coexistence. The implementation of activities that promote environmental awareness has also been valued.
The program, funded by the Ministry of Culture through the General Directorate of Books, Comics and Reading, has had a total investment of 1.1 million euros.
This initiative is key in promoting access to books and reading, while approximately half of the Spanish population resides in municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants. The goal of the campaign is, following the ideal of María Moliner herself, that any reader anywhere can get the book that interests her.
The selection process has been carried out according to criteria such as the clarity and interest of the project for reading animation, good planning and feasibility, as well as originality and innovation and the social integration activities contained in the proposal and with special attention to the municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants. This campaign aims to make reading break all the structural gaps and become a real social habit.