Project Report
| Apr 19, 2018
Lots of activities at FAVL Burkina Faso in 2018
By Michael Kevane | Director
![Illustrator Robert Bazoum]()
Illustrator Robert Bazoum
Our new Biblio-Mobile-Pénélope moto-tricycle service is moving along (photos below) and will be ready to operate soon. We are hoping to start at the end of April. FAVL program officer met on April 11 with school directors in Kaya to start programming times for the mobile library to come to the schools. We are awaiting the painting of the mobile library (photo below is graphic artist Michael Gama's mockup using a photo of the tricycle). Books, shelves, mats have been purchased. So far about $3,000 has been spent from the donations. Thank you donors for your generosity.
What else is new at FAVL-Burkina Faso?
- Fifteen new photos books were printed and delivered in March 2018 to most of the libraries that we support in Burkina Faso. Picture of the books on the booksehelf in Sebba Library is below.
- Libraries received 20 copies of a kid’s magazine called Kidzymag that is filled with short stories and fun games for kids to play.
- Many libraries received donations of books; one of the gratifying things about working with libraries is to see how many “friends” are out there willing to support reading.
- Libraries held their regularly scheduled monthly meetings in March- on the agenda are two reading contests being held in some of the libraries – one supported by the US Embassy, the other by Catholic Relief Services.
- The Multimedia Center in Hounde has been producing many books this year- sixteen Kikirou stories in the Fall 2017, and six more children’s books written and illustrated by people from Tuy Province. The illustrator Robert Bazoum (below) is doing a spectacular job.
- FAVL Director Michael Kevane met with Stanislas Ouanré, Minister of Education, in March 2018 to see about possible collaboration for establishing more libraries.
- Lots more going on every day; read our blog for more information.
![New photo books on display Sebba Library]()
New photo books on display Sebba Library
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Book shelf for mobile library
![Newly painted biblio-mobile April 2018]()
Newly painted biblio-mobile April 2018
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Biblio-mobile almost finished April 2018
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Jan 5, 2018
Motorbike mobile library will start January 2018!
By Michael Kevane | Director, West Africa
![Salimata in school with 'mobile library' Dec 2017]()
Salimata in school with 'mobile library' Dec 2017
Thanks to a very generous end-or-year donor, the FAVL team in Burkina Faso is now ready to move forward with this project. A tricycle motobike and "cart" will be purchased in Janaury 2018 and an assistant "mobile librarian" hired and trained to operate this project starting in February. We will initiate the project in the small town of Kaya, for logistical reasons, and start the first months of the project delivering library books to schools in the area. As we acquire experience with operating the mobile library we will increasingly target more remote rural villages. We are very excited to implement this project!
In December the FAVL Burkina Faso team conducted an exercise implementing a mobile library in a local school, with our partner organisation Catholic Relief Services (the joint Beoog Biiga II project established 20 libraries in northern Burkina Faso in 2015, and these libraries continue to be supported). A tricycle was hired, and books and reading activities were carried out in a local school. Photos below are from the activity in December 2017.
FAVL continues to operate 34 community libraries in Burkina Faso. Our latest December 2017 newsletter is available here. In the coming months of 2018, we will continue to supply libraries in our network with new books, as fuding permits. We are also producing 16 more photo books for distribution in the libraries.
![Aicha in school with 'mobile library' Dec 2017]()
Aicha in school with 'mobile library' Dec 2017
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Aug 11, 2017
Waiting for completion of funding to start
By Michael Kevane | Director, West Africa
![Karaba librarian Domboue Hakahoun met Hounde mayor]()
Karaba librarian Domboue Hakahoun met Hounde mayor
Thanks donors for hanging in there with FAVL! We are still awaiting hiring of a Houndé multimedia center manager to then implement this mobile book delivery program. We just hired two new program officers for our office in Ouagadougou, and that will enable the national team to devote more attention to the libraries in southwestern Burkina Faso where this activity is focused. Meetins were held in July 2017 with various mayor's offices in Tuy province (you can read about them on the blog, in French though) to ensure more cooperation and engagement with library services for the 7 libraries in the area.
Here are some of the highlights of FAVL activities in recent months (you can read more on our blog):
Burkina Faso
- Summer reading camps held in 22 villages (June and July 2017)
- 15 photos books printed and distributed (these feature people in local communities where libraries are located)
- Two new program officers hired and trained
- Mayors in 22 village sites held meetings with FAVL representative to ensure payment of librarian salaries
- A typical library receives 200 visits a month
Ghana
- After school reading program initiated August 2017
- Coordinator Paul Ayutoliya visited libraries in Accra and purchased 115 books for Sumbrungu, Sherigu and Kunkua libraries
- Libraries receive several thousand visits each month
Uganda
- Uganda Community Libraries Association held in August 2017 its annual conference
- Kitengesa Library is thriving
- Interns from Douglas College in Canada volunteered in community libraries
![Summer reading camp tshirt design]()
Summer reading camp tshirt design
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Summer reading camp banner
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