7/30/2018

HUMAN LIBRARIES


LAHORE / PAKISTAN : The Walled City of Lahore Authority [WCLA] plans to launch human libraries at Lahore Fort which will start from September this year.

This project will be one of its kind in Pakistan.

So far, the concept of human libraries has started in different countries of the world like China, Denmark, the  United States, India  the United Kingdom but Pakistan had no such attraction for the tourists at the  popular tourist sites or monuments.

WCLA Marketing &  Media deputy director disclosed that "A Human Library is an event of a continuous activity that aims to create dialogue and understanding between people and the tourists visiting different historic sites.

In such activities the individuals or the native of the area volunteer themselves as  human books and people or the tourists instead of reading the books can have a  one to one conversation with the volunteers and share in a-

Dialogue about that individual's experience and historic events which the individual had witnessed over his lifetime at those sites.''

She said that sometimes, references cannot be found in the books and therefore in such cases, the people are really a primary source of information.

'' The human libraries all over the world are designed to conduct a healthy and a positive conversations among the individuals and the tourists or researchers and it aims to change and challenge stereotypes and and prejudices through dialogues and conversations.

At such points or events the difficult questions are expected, appreciated and answered by the individuals and this is what-

We are planning to do at Lahore Fort as this site is a mark of many empires and people come up with a lot questions and confusions, which I guess would be resolved through such an initiative, " Tania Querishi added. 

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