Mobile media libraries for access to education and culture

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières

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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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!

7/16/2024

"MY BAG OF BOOKS": SHARING THE JOY OF READING AND WELCOMING VISITORS

Throughout the month of June, BSF once again offered backpacks filled with books to 3,000 allophone students newly arrived in France and attending school in the academies of Amiens, Aix-Marseille, Créteil, Paris, and also in Strasbourg, designated World Book Capital in 2024 by UNESCO.

In each of these bags: books chosen especially for them by peers their own age. This program, supported by BSF for the sixth consecutive year, is a large-scale educational project aimed at students enrolled in UPE2A - Unité pédagogique pour élèves allophones arrivants. This National Education scheme enables children newly arrived in France to be enrolled in an "ordinary" class, while benefiting from adapted support to learn French. Fully included in the school system, these students can meet new people and regain their self-confidence.

Throughout the month of June, 3,000 pupils from CP to 3ème received a bag of five books chosen especially for them - according to their age, level of French, interests - thanks to educational work carried out with their teachers and classmates, based on a bibliography and activity sheets drawn up by BSF.

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

books given to a child

already funded

450 difts