CEM launched a reading corner on Friday in conjunction with the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (FAOM, Gung Luen in Cantonese), aiming to promote a reading culture among its workers, the power utility said in a statement on Friday.
The reading corner, which was unveiled in the CEM Building’s staff canteen, features books supplied by FAOM.
Over 200 books have been supplied by FAOM, aiming to “provide workers with abundant reading resources and allow them to acquire more knowledge and inspiration, and, at the same time, increase their sense of identification with the nation and ethnicity through learning history”, the statement noted.
The initiative, the statement said, follows the previous establishment of a mobile Worker Book House at the CEM Dispatch Centre.
During her speech at the unveiling ceremony on Friday, FAOM President Ho Sut Heng said that since the Worker Book House project’s launch, they have been vigorously promoting the construction of mobile book houses, hoping they can enter enterprises and become “libraries within reach” of workers.
Moreover, Ho said she believed that through the new reading corner, more workers will be encouraged to participate in reading activities.
CEM Executive Committee Chairman Bernie Leong Wa Kun said that the reading corner provides employees with an enriched reading space, creating a perpetual upward cycle of “reading, learning, thinking, and improving.” Moreover, through FAOM’s efforts and assistance, the Worker Book House project has been successfully established in Macau and has seen rapid development, according to the statement.
