Dreptul la a doua şansă
The Right for a Second Chance

Summary/Abstract: According to the UNESCO Public Library Manifesto - that emphasis the role of public library in rendering free access to information - Mureş County Library had initiated a project, called Moveable Library, which proved to be very well received by the target. The project has been initially created for two different social groups: the old people, that had been accomodated to the Elder People Care Center and the detainees from Târgu-Mureş Penitentiary, aged between 16-21; later, we have enlarged our activities, by adding two more targets: the Hospital of Pediatrics and Oncology from Târgu-Mureş and the Caritas Foundation. The results of our project were quite visible, especially because we have chosen to work with the same group every time, in order to quantify its evolution. At the beginning, those young people were not able to work very well, they hardly knew the letters; now, they can read poetry, novels and even manage to put on Eminescu’s Scrisoarea III… Since the beginning of the project, we tried to the target group a variety of activities and programmes, such as: library and its place inside community; Romanians coats of arms, their evolution and significance; winter holydays - Christmas; our national poet, Mihai Eminescu; the French novelist, Jules Verne; Valentine’s Day - love; the importance of water in everyday’s life; gipsies and their way of living; Easter holyday; pernicious drogs; the teacher’s portrait; practical workshops, and the results of their work have been exhibited at our library. The results of our project were also visible in the contest “Who knows… wins”; the detainees proved their knowledge in reading, writing and learning. We are convinced that the best benefit of our project is neither ours, nor of the detainees, but of the Society! Helping those young men to be readmitted in our society, we are actually helping them not to dwindle again. We know we can not “bring over” all of them; but those who are interested in a second chance, will have one.

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