The Cabildo received this Tuesday a hundred books donated by the Rotary Club Lanzarote-Costa Teguise. The delivery ceremony of these copies took place in the Island Library and was attended by the president of this group, Domingo Brito, who was accompanied by the members of his board of directors; as well as the Councilor for Education and Culture of the Cabildo, Emma Cabrera, and the director of the Island Library, Fernando Morales.
In the five boxes donated by the Rotary Club there are books on History, for consultation or documentation, geopolitical atlas, as well as others more focused on young people and adolescents, with a lot of science fiction and animals, among other topics.
This donation is framed in the Saramago cultural project, which is developed by this group, combined with others of a social nature, and which consists of channeling private donations that they receive to entities and public administrations, such as the Island Library, or Secondary schools, such as the IES of Teguise, which will be the recipient of an upcoming donation.
After a few words of presentation of the initiative by Domingo Brito, as well as thanks to the Cabildo and the councilor for their institutional collaboration, the president of Rotary gave the councilor a book on the history of the Rotary Club. For her part, Emma Cabrera expressed her gratitude to the charitable group for their help in promoting reading among young people, as well as their contribution to bringing Culture closer to society at a time of many cuts in library funds.
These books, after being cataloged and registered in the new network of libraries of the Government of the Canary Islands, Absys.net, will be available to the public from October.