By Paco Alcaide | Regional Director
Imagine not having access to computers or the Internet. If you are reading this online, it is probably unthinkable.
In the communities we serve, a Riecken Community Library often provides the first – and only — hands-on experience with a computer. Our library users gain new skills and become linked to each other, to ideas and to opportunities – powerful tools for improving their communities and strengthening their participation in the bigger world.
Riecken Community Libraries has always played a strong role in bringing access to technology and training in its use to many who otherwise, simply would not have any other resources. In 2016,
140,381 people using computers; of whom 56% are women.
862 women using computer for the first time.
74,746 people connected to internet in libraries; of whom, 58% are women.
Technology is our “excuse” to promote the human, organizational, and social capabilities of rural women.
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