Kenya Kabondo, Message of  Erick Ochanji : “Here it shows the headteacher of ‘Got Rateng’ primary school distributing to pupils books donated to Kabondo Poverty Alleviation Organization (KPAO) by Biblionef. The books were distributed in the presence of pupils, school teachers, the Board of KPAO, UN Volunteer Raul Carceres from Australia and Kabondo community online facilitator, Barb Briggs of Calgary Canada. Thank you very much and we look forward to your future support.”  This is a...[more]

Report form Kenya, Mbara: The town is a bit out of the way. Because we wanted to be there when the books are send up the mountain of Mbara we waited until one of us could go again, so it took a wile before the school received the books. But they are in the library now and the children are very happy! The world map was great. We looked at it with some students for an hour…! We would like to ask for more books for a school two hours higher up in...[more]

A report form Bandung, Indonesia: On July the 10^th of 2008 we received 115 English children’s books that are placed in the library of Iqra Media. Three days later the books were registered and ready for the public. At this moment there are 47 registered readers and book borrowers. Every week more borrowers are added. We also have a lot of children that came to the library to sit and read books.One school has come...[more]

India, Maharastra, Nasik: The Mama Mzungu Foundation supports projects for woman and children. In Nasik they help a mission post, run by sister Meena, with education projects for less privileged girls. A library is set up, a vegetable garden is established and fruit trees are planted. In the summer 3 boxes of children’s books went to Nasik. From the report:‘We have not seen the sun in 10 days and no rain for 2 hours…...[more]

Amsterdam, 9 September 2008. Today the campaign ‘The world is reading’ was launched at the Amsterdam Public Library. The campaign wants attention for the second Millennium Developmental Goal to achieve quality education for all and in particular the decreasing of illiteracy around the world. Biblionef launches the campaign ‘The world is reading’ to promote literacy with the support of libraries, publishers, writers, book outlets and other companies and partners. The campaign coincides with the...[more]