Education Burkina Faso Project #15208

Provide reading opportunities to schoolchildren

by Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL)

Project Report | May 12, 2017
Awaiting more funding for project

By Michael Kevane | FAVL Director, West Africa

Children with books in Sumbrungu library, Ghana

Hello donors and friends of African Village Libraries and reading programs. We are planning to eventually purchase a motorcycle and trailer for enabling mobile library services. but at the moment funding target has not yet been met.

Meanwhile, here is an update on FAVL activities in the first quarter of 2017.

In Burkina Faso:

FAVL continues with activities to support 34 libraries in the country (20 libraries in the provinces of Bam and Sanmatenga were opened in the beginning of 2016).
Thirteen new books photo books are about to be printed and shipped to Burkina Faso. One, called "Our Village Hosts a Summer Reading Camp"(in French) is available for purchase now.
Summer reading camps are being planned for 25 of the libraries in Burkina Faso.
We are hoping to hire a dynamic and creative manager for the Houndé Multimedia Center in coming weeks, to run more outreach and conmputer training activities for young women in the region.

In Ghana:

After-school reading programs continue to be held in all three libraries. These are locally funded programs.
Local director Paul Ayutoliya travelled to Accra to purchase books for the three libraries and visit Jordan Nu community library.
A new motorcycle was purchased for Paul to enable him to circulate to the three libraries.
Lots of readers come regularly to the libraries. One librarian hosted an essay writing contest, "Why Come to the Library." Read about it here.

In the United States:

FAVL continues to receive great service from two Santa Clara University student interns in 2017. Maria again leveraged her French skills to produce two more posters about reading (Moroccan authors) that are now on the walls of many of the libraries. Beth has been keeping our Quickbooks accounting system up to date for Ghana. They have both also done a lot of blog post formatting, editing, book production, and all the office tasks that keep us humming. We are really grateful for these contributions

Links:

FAVL website and blog

Short story writing contest winner, Burkina Faso

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