Book reading campaign
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To mark World Refugee Day, every year UNHCR is partnering with libraries and bookshops across the country in encouraging people to take out a book about refugees.
The 2018 campaign will run from 18 June to 30 June, with Hodges Figgis, Dubray Books and libraries from Dublin to Cork participating.
Using UNHCR’s specially selected book lists for children and adults, readers will have a wide selection of stories from around the world to choose from in the form of fact, fiction, autobiography and photography.
Popular titles include ‘The Kite Runner’, which documents the boyhood friendship of two friends in Afghanistan and ‘The Go-Away Bird‘, a first-hand account of the Rwandan Genocide by a 12 year old refugee.
World Refugee Day is an opportunity to salute the strength and courage of refugees; the solidarity of those countries, including Ireland, who assist refugees; and the contribution refugees make to countries around the world.
