Library Details
Questions? Contact us.
Progress: 1300 / 5,000 bricks raised (26%)
since Dec. 5, 2009

26%


Donate bricks =  $2 in of
Your name or Twitter username (e.g., @bookwish):
Notify honoree? Enter honoree's email address: what's this?If you provide your honoree's email address, will email him/her saying that you have donated bricks in his/her honor. This email will contain a few details about the library project and a link to several videos from the refugee camps. For multiple honorees, you can provide up to 3 email addresses, separated by commas.
U.S. taxpayers: your donation is tax-deductible. Our EIN is 26-1285319. Contact us if you need an additional receipt.
Videos from the refugee camps in eastern Chad:
English classes in Bredjing Refugee Camp, using textbooks purchased by us with donations from the public. The classes were self-organized by the refugees, but they lacked textbooks. With our support, the program has grown dramatically to about 2,000 Darfuris. The textbooks they are using (which they specifically requested) are the Headway series published by Oxford University Press, who have discounted them heavily.
In Treguine Refugee Camp, most of the English classes meet in refugees' homes, such as the one shown in this video. School buildings are often full because of overcrowding in the camps.
Darfuri children at one of many overcrowded schools in Bredjing Refugee Camp. They would be primary beneficiaries of our library, for the first time having access to relevant children's books. When they graduate from this primary school, books in the library will become a major source of secondary-level knowledge, since the secondary school program in the camps is barely developed. Their teachers, also refugees and almost universally without college education, will benefit from these books, too.
We have many more videos of schools, literacy classes, and children in these camps.
Click here to view, but please don't forget to donate a brick first!