Peace for Development Refugees Initiative & other locations - Creating Community Libraries

Intent - Create "libraries" in existing premises providing access to eBooks for locals in a membership community of lifelong learners through fast download onto their existing devices.

Assistant Librarian

Peace for Development Refugees Initiative · LibraryMar 2022 - Present · 2 mosKakuma Camp- and other locations in camp, such as STMP, etc
South Rockies Baseball5 Club, Kenya
The Learning Street, c/o Jeff, Kenya
The INNOVATION School, Nakivale Camp, Uganda
Ssala Institute, Kampala, Uganda
Lumley Beach, Freetown, Sierra Leone c/o TIDAP

Kakuma Camp

• • Assisting in the set up and running of a library at various locations 
  • - aquiring books
    - developing staff
    - building community
    
    Looking into local "publishing" of self published books like Ilvie Little and The E.A.R.T.H Gang.
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  • Also The Happy Manifesto, available in pdf
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    Exploring access to eBooks through Vienna Library. Read on phones if/when affordable download possibilities exist
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  • Exploring provision of a "box of books" or "bag of books" per location where ten books are available for ten toddlers for an hour, for ten hours per day, so 100 kids per day are happy with ten books. after a week the bag is rotated to a nearby location and a new bag brought in. In 50 locations across 50 weeks the 5000 kids each get exposed to 500 books - providing a lot of food for thought. Piloting in Hietzing and Mariahilf - centred around Pizzeria Mama Mia   (daily 11am to 11pm) and Familie Reiter where there is a bag of books awaiting your toddler ( Weds-Sun 8am til 4pm) 

  
  

  • Exploring sources of books such as Christ Church Literacy Project, Mr Men & Little Miss, and Ladybird Books.
    www.ilvielittle.com,
  • https://theearthgang.com/,
    https://www.ccv-site.org/web/index.php/connect/books-literacy-initiative

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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