Federal Interior Minister Faeser: Focus on children!

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Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser surprises children in the Fröbel kindergarten in Berlin-Mitte with a reading lesson for the reading day.

Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser überrascht Kinder im Fröbel-Kindergarten in Berlin-Mitte mit einer Lesestunde zum Vorlesetag.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser surprises children in the Fröbel kindergarten in Berlin-Mitte with a reading lesson for the reading day.

Federal Interior Minister Faeser: Focus on children!

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In Berlin-Mitte, a very special reading day was celebrated on Friday, which not only touched the hearts of the children, but also drew attention to a serious problem. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser visited the Charité Fröbel kindergarten and brought a book to read the little one. The event took place as part of the nationwide reading day, which has been organized by the Reading Foundation since 2004. According to a study by the Reading Foundation, many children do not have the opportunity to read regularly, which significantly affects their educational opportunities. Every fifth child rarely looks at a book with his parents, such as Morgenpost reported.

in kindergarten there was a happy atmosphere when the children filled the room with a loud laughter and radiant faces. Faeser and Jörg F. Maas, Managing Director of the Reading Foundation, read the story "Fuchs and Bär" to the children. The little ones listened to a spellbound while looking at the colorful pictures. But the reading day didn't just have an entertaining character; He was also an urgent request to take the reading seriously. A PISA study from 2018 showed that around 20 percent of 15 years have difficulty understanding texts. This is alarming because the reading performance of the students has deteriorated in international comparison.

A call for reading promotion

The event ended with a gift for every child: a book of reading mouse entitled "Our colorful reading stories". The goal is clear: parents should stimulate their children to read and bring them closer to the joy of books. Faeser emphasized the importance of reading for the development of the children and the improvement of their educational opportunities.

But while the children in kindergarten benefited from the joy of reading, another topic causes excitement in the capital. The controversial slogan "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" is now being treated by the Federal Court of Justice. A woman was convicted by the Berlin District Court for the spread of this slogan, which is associated with the terrorist organization Hamas. The judgment is controversial because there are different decisions nationwide on this topic. The defense has filed a revision, which means that the case must now be clarified at the highest level, as