Luz Márquez de la Plata Cortés, director of the Biblioteca Escolar Futuro at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, heads a program that brings books to underserved children across the nation. The school libraries at each university campus open their doors to low-income children and have special collections to encourage them to read. They also work with a women’s prison. “It brings them freedom,” she said.
Luz Márquez de la Plata Cortés, director of the Biblioteca Escolar Futuro at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, heads a program that brings books to underserved children across the nation. The school libraries at each university campus open their doors to low-income children and have special collections to encourage them to read. They also work with a women’s prison. “It brings them freedom,” she said.