Small Pencils, Big Steps-News details of Javad Cultural Charity

Mr. Gholam Ali Sefid, the Director General of Yazd Imam Javad (AS) Educational Institution, in the appreciation ceremony of student writers and illustrators, called “Small Pencils, Big Steps” mentioned that all the plans and programs related to this field are held by students, teachers, instructors, and the authorities at Imam Javad (AS) Educational Institution. He added that Imam Javad (AS) Institution focuses on versatile and many-sided training. He said: “We believe that in an open atmosphere and by realizing the potentials and talents and their growth cycle, the students can actualize a bright future for the whole country.” He emphasized: “If we try to inject certain ideas and concepts into the minds of our students by force, we will never be successful. Therefore, in this institution we will take special steps in educational, sports, and artistic fields and our teachers are making efforts in these directions.” Mr. Sefid also said: “We try to be concerned about other aspects of children’s lives and do not make memorizing the books our students’ mere focal point. However, we train them for living properly and try to have real life in our schools’ environments.” He maintained: “ It’s been a couple of years we have taken steps in this path and we have encouraged our center’s children to enter writing and authorship fields so that their inner selves can fruitfully thrive. Shabestan News Agency wrote that Hojjat Al-Eslam Mozaffar Salari, the national writer and Yazd’s Coordination Headquarters of Mosques’ Councils Manager, attending the Appreciation Ceremony of student writers and illustrators at Imam Javad (AS) Educational Institution, which was called “Small Pencils, Big Steps”, said:” This is a precious measure taken by Imam Javad (AS) Institution to have allowed the children and teenagers the opportunity to be able to write books and publish them. He added: I was a member of Children and Adolescents Intellectual Development Center as a child and I always aspired to get the chance to write books and publish the, however, these facilities did not exist back then. However, I used to buy some luxurious notebooks and jotted down my stories there with some illustrations and endowed them to my friends as gifts. Salari also mentioned: “I guarantee that Yazd will be one of the main centers for children and adolescent literature in the near future.” He said: "With the support of the officials, we are implementing a project called “Taravat” (meaning freshness) in Yazd, in which 30 mosques and more than 1300 teenagers are involved in different activities, one of which is storytelling, and we hope that these capacities can cause good things to happen in the province." The writer of the book ”Deebal and Zolfa” stated: “During my childhood and adolescence, I was influenced by some foreign writers, such as Jules Verne, Patterson, and Charles Dickens, and sometimes I tried to imitate them. Among Iranian authors, I was also inspired by Mahmood Hakimi, samad Behrangi, and Amoozadeh Khalili and I continued writing. Referring to the stories of Amouzadeh Khalili, one of the country's renown writers, he said: "Amoozadeh Khalili is one of the pillars of literature in our country and has trained a generation in the field of fiction. We sincerely hope to be able to recognize this capacity properly.”