Reading is good for health

Since 2019, together with the Public Libraries and the Reading Circle, a programme for the promotion of reading has been set up with a view to transforming waiting periods in hospital. And so, thanks to donations to the Medicine for Women Foundation 2000 books have thus been made available. The institution launches a network project for the promotion of Reading in the Hospital which starts from the S. Anna Hospital and becomes part of the Pact for Reading of the City of Turin. An ecosystem is born in interinstitutional collaboration with the Turin Civic Libraries , Iter - Turin Institution for Responsible Education , the Circolo dei readers Foundation , the AVO-Associazione Volontari Ospedalieri , the S. Anna University Hospital of Turin. The collaboration, established over a three-year time horizon, aims to give value to waiting time in the hospital, to reach new readers, to create a platform for the synergistic, organic development of existing projects, to launch experiments with great attention to processes and assessable in their impact and extensible in other contexts.