Dangwa Libraries

Mobile Library

Bringing the Library to Remote Areas

For most rural-based schools and communities, access to a library is a luxury most cannot afford.  In my visits to African countries, I have seen first-hand the poverty-stricken schools who use grass or sticks for counters, who have no classrooms...they study under trees, those with classrooms most are leaking and worn down; teachers struggle to have chalk, if they have a board at all; textbooks are so scarce sometimes a class only has a handful to share amongst 40 children.  So with that backdrop, expecting these schools to have libraries is a tall order.  Dangwa Initiative solicits books from US-based schools and organizations like BIG and we ship containers of books.  Even though our last shipment had over 50,000 books they are not enough for us to set up independent libraries at all the 46 schools we serve.  Enter Mobile Library!

How it Works

We partner with the schools and bring books to the schools monthly.  Children take out a book each.  They can exchange their books with others within the same school until another lot of books is delivered as we collect the ones loaned in the previous month.  Each school gets new sets each time as we give School A what School D had and School D gets what School B had and so forth and so forth.
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