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人与自我——生活与学习之社区图书馆
(2023·江苏镇江模拟)Gutiérrez's life would never be the same again after finding a copy of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy in the garbage 20 years ago.It happened while he was driving his garbage truck through wealthier neighbourhoods at night and seeing abandoned books.It aroused his desire to start rescuing books from the garbage.He used to take home between 50 and 60 books every morning.Eventually, he turned his book collection into a community library for children from lowincome families.
Colombia's capital city of Bogotá has 19 public libraries.However, these libraries tend to be far away from where rural and poorer communities live.The option of buying new books is nonexistent for families struggling to make ends meet.Gutiérrez's community library is a true representation of how one man's garbage can be another's treasure.
Gutiérrez grew up poor, and his family could not afford to educate him beyond primary school.Nevertheless,his mother was a passionate reader and read stories to him every night.Her love for books left a deep impression on Gutiérrez.
Today, his makeshift community library,called “The Strength of Words” , occupies most of his home in southern Bogotá, and is piled from floor to ceiling with fiction and nonfiction titles.Everything from school textbooks to storybooks can be found in his collection of more than 20,000 books! As the word began to spread about his amazing project, people began sending him many more books to grow his library.
Despite having done so much for his community,Gutiérrez is not yet content to call it a day.He continues to search through garbage cans for reading materials.Today, the Gutiérrez family does not merely want to start libraries in neighbourhoods.They want to create space for school children to spend their time reading.
Gutiérrez's journey to giving back to his local community is an amazing example of how eve