We work to nurture Nicaraguan children's innate curiosity which equips them to create solutions (big and small) to poverty and its challenges.
We work to nurture Nicaraguan families' innate curiosity which equips them to create solutions (big and small) to poverty and its challenges. We are an organization based out of the United States, but exclusively working in Nicaragua. Viva León Leyendo is our program in León, Nicaragua, promoting literacy to Nicaraguan families.
20/02/2019
In addition to public story hours, Viva León Leyendo shares the power of reading in public schools (pictured: Modesto Armijo). We train any interested teachers in how to read aloud like storytellers and give them access to engaging, age-appropriate books.
16/02/2019
Come and join Viva León Leyendo at any of our public story hours!
12/02/2019
Viva León Leyendo is growing!! More neighborhoods means more families reading!
Support literacy: https://www.curiositycircle.com/donate
06/02/2019
Viva León Leyendo is outgrowing the stoop in front of its Sutiaba library! Hooray!
A year ago Viva León Leyendo celebrated the inauguration of the Carlos Nuñez story hour!! It's still going strong! We're thrilled to see children borrowing books to bring home to read, too
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04/02/2019
Where's Waldo?, ¿Dónde está Wally?, is globally popular. :)
29/01/2019
We're getting back to posting about this incredible program, Viva León Leyendo. Our last post was April 6, 2018 - mere days before so many lives changed. Thanks for your patience for news while we regrouped for the last 9 months. The Curiosity Circle, locally known as Viva Leon Leyendo, has been thriving, growing and absolutely rocking throughout the past 9 months bringing amazing books/stories to families throughout it all. We've got news to share about new staff, new story hour sites, new storytellers, new books and a new chess club. It's quite an A M A Z I N G story of our own!
06/04/2018
"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip." - Diane Duane
That's our goal, to get kids addicted to reading. It's much better than chips. :)
Donate to help us: https://www.curiositycircle.com/donatecuriosity
21/02/2018
16/02/2018
We were so excited to recently meet with author Andrea Doshi. We had an interesting conversation about children's books and the need for more girl protaganists.
Andrea and her team founded Queen Girls which publishes children's books which break gender stereotypes from early on.
Andrea generously donated "Bessie, Queen of the Sky" to our library and dedicated it to all of the "Queens of León". It was our first book signed by the author!
Learn more about Queen Girls: https://www.queengirls.co/
Emocionadas de poder compartir con la autora Andrea Doshi una interesante plática sobre cuentos infantiles y la necesidad de que haya más protagonistas mujeres/niñas en los mismos.
Andrea y su equipo promueven el proyecto "Queen Girls" en el que publican libros infantiles con la misión de romper estereotipos de género desde la niñez.
Gracias por regalarnos "Bessie, la reina de los cielos" nos encargaremos de que llegue a las manos de muchas niñas y niños en León.
Pueden seguir este interesante proyecto en la página https://www.queengirls.co/
16/02/2018
"Long live curiosity and those who nurture it." - an encouraging note from an awesome donor
Join this awesome donor in supporting curiosity: https://www.curiositycircle.com/donatecuriosity