kidsREAD empowers children from lower-income families with English language skills
In Singapore, the kidsREAD programme has helped more than 50,000 children from lower-income families, aged...
Mobile library increases rural students’ engagement by providing access to technology and learning resources
The Mobile Library Programme for primary and secondary schools is offered to communities located in...
Library-led community garden feeds people, builds skills and boosts employability
In Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, a project “One House, One Garden” has transformed the library’s open...
Library gives rural farmers access to ICT, skills and support to grow their businesses
In Edenville, a small rural farming community situated in the Free State Province, South Africa,...
Public libraries team up with primary schools to increase reading literacy
In the 2006 PISA survey, which tests 15-year-old students from all over the world in...
“Start Life with a Book” project seeks to improve reading literacy
Until recently, only a handful of Czech libraries offered special services to newborns, toddlers and...
School libraries programme improves children’s academic skills in the Netherlands
Low literacy creates significant barriers to employment, access to government services, and broader social and...
Dutch BookStart programme enhances language development and leads to better education
About 67,500 new parents (four out of ten nationally) took up the invitation of the...
BiblioStreet programme helps to integrate people experiencing homelessness
In Chile, the national registry of homeless people identified 12,860 people living on street in...
Dialogues for Integration: Hamburg Libraries Help Refugees Find their Way
Since 2015, Europe has seen the arrival of an almost unprecedented number of people fleeing...