March 23, 2022

11:03

Eduardo Figueiredo – from Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The project “Rabeta Literária” is receiving donations of ludic books, comics, novels, short stories and comic books to donate to children from Comunidade Novo Horizonte, located in the Industrial District neighborhood, South Zone of Manaus, during a literary action that happens this Saturday, 26.

The project emerged in 2017, in the municipality of Tefé – distant 521km from Manaus -, but according to the founder Cineuda Bessa, the desire was always to bring to the capital. “Manaus is a big city and everything is far away. Yesterday, I received the invitation to go to a community this coming Saturday and I made the announcement on Instagram to collect books,” declares the founder to CENARIUM MAGAZINE.

Bessa points out that one of the aims of the project is “to move the books we have at home, stored, and make the donation to take to where they have more difficulty. Those who want to make donations can contact us through Instagram (@cineudabessa).

The project

According to Cineuda, the project started in Tefé, just as a ‘little joke’, in 2017; but it was in 2019, after the help of a friend, that the action took shape being baptized “Literature in the Rivers”.

“I used to work in the city library, and seeing that young people didn’t look for it, I went two or three times to the communities to drop off textbooks at schools, and from there the idea came to me: ‘Well, if the young people in the city don’t look for the library, I’ll bring it to the countryside. In 2019, an employee of Azul saw it and wanted to help me, but she asked me for the written project and I didn’t even have a name, much less something written, but I made one with 15 lines, more or less, and created the name ‘Literature in the Rivers’ and it worked out well”, says the librarian.

Until then, the actions were carried out only in the riverside communities near Tefé, where Bessa would take the books, hold a reading circle with the children, exchange books, and play educational games. “I separated some books and went to a nearby community, and the children and teenagers loved them, after all, they were different books, rich, with illustrative drawings. I took the risk of going on Monday, and it worked as well. Then we had the idea of changing the name to ‘Literary Rabeta’, because our transportation was the Rabeta”, she recalls.

In 2020, the project was entered in the contest of the Feliciano Lana Award, of the Aldir Blanc Law, and was awarded second place.

*Ana Carolina Beauvoir contributed