Mobile media libraries for access to education and culture

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières

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Action zones

France

International

The project

EducationInternational solidarity

Help BSF deploy innovative "Ideas Box" mobile libraries for access to education and culture for vulnerable populations - especially children and girls.

2/3

million

visits per year to the 150 Ideas Boxes deployed worldwide

250

millions

children in the world do not attend school

Solution

BSF's flagship tool is the Ideas Box, a media library in kit form that can be rapidly deployed in any field, bringing educational and cultural content, fun and pedagogy to vulnerable communities. Designed by Philippe Starck, this multimedia and learning center contains books, computers, tablets, board games, creative materials and a cinema, and can accommodate up to 50 people.

The association is currently present in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

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12/12/2024

10 years of impact for BSF's Ideas Boxes!

Dear difteurs,

Designed in 2014 by Philippe Starck for Bibliothèques Sans Frontières, the Ideas Box has established itself as the flagship tool at the heart of our actions in favor of a fair sharing of access to knowledge around the world.

Designed to meet the needs of each beneficiary population and the specific objectives of each project imagined with local partners, each of our Ideas Boxes is unique because populated with content created and/or selected to measure.

Thoughtfully designed to reach the populations furthest from culture, education and information, they are deployed in humanitarian crisis contexts as well as in support of development programs or the fight against inequality.

This year, in 2024, we celebrate 10 years of impact for our Ideas Box. Today, there are 161 Ideas Boxes that are deployed in 25 countries and have enabled 2.7 million beneficiaries to take refuge, resist, reconcile, emancipate and cultivate hope for a better future.

Relive, with our sponsor Augustin Trapenard, these last 10 years within our Ideas Boxes!

A big thank you to you, dear difteurs, for your precious support and donations ✨

10/7/2024

Discover our new annual report!

Dear donors,

Thanks to your difts, in 2023, Libraries Without Borders' actions benefited 497,000 people in 22 countries.

From libraries deployed in Turkey and Morocco following earthquakes, to those accompanying women survivors of sexual violence in conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the creation of an educational kit to combat illiteracy through radio in French Guiana, our teams have never ceased to innovate and reinvent themselves this year in order to respond as effectively as possible to the needs of the most vulnerable populations.

In this activity report, explore the outstanding projects of recent months, dive into the NGO's highlights with us and discover our ambitions for tomorrow!

Here's where you can find our annual report!

The money will be used for

Thanks to your donation, you enable BSF:

- to select and create content in a wide range of themes (education, citizenship, entrepreneurship, health, culture and reading, climate change...) and in more than 38 languages so that they are as adapted as possible to our beneficiaries;

- to create and produce Ideas Boxes in France and send them to nearly 30 countries around the world;

- to train facilitators directly in the fields of intervention, as close as possible to the beneficiaries, so that they can accompany the activities carried out on the Ideas Boxes ;

- to maintain the Ideas Boxes over the long term so that they continue to welcome, every day and in every context, children, girls, women, displaced people so that they can continue to learn, have fun, create links and build their future.

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières

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