Explains rationale for delivering books to prisoners
Admin l Friday, August 21, 2020
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Yahaya Kwande Foundation has delivered not less than 800 books to prisons, orphanages and schools as part of effort to instill reading culture in Nigerians.
The 800 books were delivered to 2 orphanages, a school and a prison. “Our next delivery is planned for Benue prison, a school in Abuja and another orphanage”, Mr. Yusuf Yahaya Kwande, Founder of the foundation said in a statement.
Explaining the reasons for taking books to prisons, he said that studies have shown that book reading in prison can be therapeutic.
“It helps to give the inmates hope, educate and motivate them to explore new ventures in life. It can reduce stress and minimizes the occurrence of violence and suicides”, he said, stressing that the aim of the foundation is that after some inmates have served their time in prison and are set free, they go home with a new mentality about the importance of life and freedom and work to be functioning members of their economy, contributors to the community and good role models to their friends and families.
Yusuf Yahaya-Kwande said the foundation is trying to play a part in bringing the joy of reading to many families who might otherwise have no access to books, offering them the opportunity to improve their lives.
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“We buy books from Spine and Label bookstore Abuja and partner with them to select books of various genres and curricula for the users’ needs. We have also made contact with publishers abroad in order to import thousands of books to carry out this project across the country”, he said.
