Mini-libraries

To enhance the value of French and Arabic literacy classes for 2,500-3,000 students in 11-12 villages in eastern Chad, Book Wish Foundation requests your help to provide mini-libraries of 50 easy reading books for each village. The books will be at an appropriate reading level for the newly literate, and will cover topics of local need and interest. These will be some of the first real books the students will ever read!

Our on-the-ground partner, CORD, will oversee the selection and distribution of the books. At a cost of about $5 each, they will be purchased from markets in Chad, supporting the local book trade. We hope that the villagers will continue to purchase books, as their literacy rate increases, and grow the libraries on their own. This could be particularly beneficial for the women, who make up 60% of the adult literacy classes, and have generally received less education than the men.

To help the villagers read their new books, Book Wish Foundation is also supplying reading glasses and solar lighting. Our comprehensive approach to reading relief increase the impact of your support.

To make a donation earmarked for the village mini-libraries, please click here.

We also hope to build much larger, 5,000-book brick libraries in three refugee camps and one village, a major undertaking that will need your help to succeed.