UAE- SBA starts 'Reading Club' for employees

Date

2/25/2016 3:28:38 AM

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times)

To encourage the reading habits amongst its employees Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has launched a book reading initiative. Titled the 'Reading Club' the initiative has been undertaken in line with directives from His Highness Shaikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah

The Reading Club falls within a series of national initiatives launched for the Year of Reading 2016. It aims to make reading a habit and lifestyle choice by giving employees at SBA's various departments and sections 30 minutes a day during working hours to read. Staff will now have two and half hours a week to promote the habit of reading among them.

Being the first ever government reading club in the Middle East the SBA has introduced the need to read and acquire good general knowledge as a criterion for recruitment and promotional opportunities. This makes SBA the first government body globally to include reading as a measurable goal in recruitment.

The SBA announced that the first book selected to be read in March is "My Early Life" (Sard Al That) authored by His Highness Shaikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah. The book will be discussed by employees later during monthly meeting.

HE Ahmed bin Rakkad Al Ameri Chairman of SBA said "As part of our efforts to realise the vision of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi Member of Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah who believes that progress and development of nations begins with nurturing minds and cultivating knowledge we launched the "Reading Club" to encourage our staff to read.We want to help our staff to develop and expand their knowledge and understand the importance of reading in developing our selves at work and during our daily lives. Working and being involved in the daily details of one's work does not mean refrain from books and reading."

"This initiative is so important because SBA is a platform for culture literature and reading and this is why the commitment of our staff to this initiative will be taken seriously. We want our staff to become role models for people of the UAE. Nations that read are nations that lead and we believe that it is only through reading we will be able to produce a generation of creative thinkers intellectuals inventors writers and leaders" he added."

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