On the 1st of December, Worldaidsday, Brenda officially handed over her book ‘ in all 11 languages to the HIV/AIDS ambassador from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paul Bekkers, to Mrs. Ton a Tjen, member of parliament, to Aagje van Heekeren, executive director of the Biblionef foundation in the Netherlands, and to Gaëtane van Veen - Bouchez, the wife of Herman van Veen, a famous Dutch artist. Also Karin Hougaard - a famous actor in South Africa - was there and told a...[more]

NEPAL, Pokhara: Through the Stichting Namaste Nepal (Namaste Nepal Foundation) Biblionef donated English children's books to the ' Education Center for Poor Children'.

The response:
Everyday during the interval (13.20 - 14.00) a lot of children are sitting on the floor reading the new books. Most of them used to go outside to play, but now many choose to go and...[more]

8 September has been designated World Literacy Day by UNESCO. On this occasion the physics master Jan Dorrepaal and three pupils of 4 HAVO (Senior General Secondary Education) and 4 VWO (University Preparatory Education) of the VCL in The Hague came to  Biblionef 's children's book storage library to select books for two schools in Kenya.

In the autumn holidays...[more]

Mobile libraries, everyone knows them, but this is indeed a very special one: in India schools are visited by the 'Camel Cart'. This cart - drawn by a camel - with a folding bookcase with library books is very popular with the children. It is thè way to reach these children with reading matter. In April Biblionef sent two boxes with 100 new English children's books to this project. Before long the books will be stored in this splendid mobile library.[more]

Through Yohannes Gebregeorgis, librarian in Ethiopia, this school received two boxes with new English children’s books from Biblionef. The children started reading immediately.[more]