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Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL) establishes community libraries in rural villages across Sub-Saharan Africa, including 13 libraries in 4 countries, to provide access to reading materials and educational programs. Each FAVL library holds around 1,000 books, is staffed 20 hours a week by a paid librarian, and offers membership fees of $0.20 for children and $0.40 for adults to support its operations and activities like reading, storytelling, games, puzzles, and reading camps.
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- 1. Friends of African Village Libraries
- 2. About FAVL FAVL establishes libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa. FAVL helps people read!
- 3. FAVL Libraries FAVL has established 13 libraries: 8 in Burkina Faso, 3 in Ghana, 1 in Tanzania and 1 in Uganda
- 5. A FAVL Library Located in rural villages Hold about 1,000 books Paid librarian operates library 20 hours a week Open to the public Annual Membership Fees: $.20 for Children $.40 for Adults
- 6. Libraries are run by a local library committee and a hired librarian. FAVL makes an effort to stock libraries with relevant materials.
- 8. Reading your favorite book!
- 11. Story telling
- 12. Playing Games!
- 13. Singing!
- 14. Dancing!
- 16. Reading Camps!
- 19. Everyday life in a village
Editor's Notes
- #18: Upsides- quality over quantity Because intensive, respond to needs villages and readers… e.g. what kinds of books? At first shipped books from U.S. but villagers want African novels not Jane Austen Very few books in local languages Brought us to partner with Kathy Knowles of Osu Children’s Library fund to make available low cost books for children in local languages Micro publishing Because intensive, we do outreach- where parents don’t know how to read or have a library culture, very important Also do training and capacity building- keeping accounts, budgets reports