African Village Libraries
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About FAVL http://www.favl.org/
Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL) is a network of individuals and donors committed to long-term management of and support for small community libraries in rural Africa. If you have been supporting a village library or community library, and would like to join our network, please contact us.
Generous donors have helped to establish and enable continued management and improvement of eleven libraries, six in Burkina Faso, three in Ghana, one in Tanzania, and one in Uganda.
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Contents
Burkina Faso
- Bereba Community Library
Bereba, Burkina Faso
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Koumbia Community Library
Koumbia, Burkina Faso
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Karaba Community Library
Karaba, Burkina Faso
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Sara Community Library
Sara, Burkina Faso
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Dohoun Community Library
Dohoun, Burkina Faso
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Boni Community Library
Boni, Burkina Faso
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Dimikuy Community Library
Dimikuy Burkina Faso
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Niankorodougou Community Library
Niankorodougou, Burkina Faso
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
Ethiopia
Ghana
- Sumbrungu Community Library
Sumbrungu, Ghana
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Sherigu Community Library
Sherigu, Ghana
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Kunkua Community Library
Kunkua, Ghana
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- Jordan Nu Community Library
Jordan Nu, Ghana
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
- The Kathy Knowles Community Library
Accra, Ghana
Organization: Osu Children's Library Fund www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca
- Nima Maamobi Gale Community Library
Accra, Ghana
Organization: Osu Children's Library Fund www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca
- Nungua Community Library
Accra, Ghana
Organization: Osu Children's Library Fund www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca
- Ngleshie-Amanfro Community Library
Accra, Ghana
Organization: Osu Children's Library Fund www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca
- President John Kufuor and The Ghana Laptop per Child Foundation seed OLPC in Ghana with 10,000 laptops. http://glpcgh.org/
Kenya
- Eastleigh Library
Nairobi, Kenya
Support Group: KidsLibs Trust kidslibstrust.org
Rwanda
- Rwanda aims for one laptop per child http://blog.laptop.org/2009/03/30/worldfocusorgs-olpc-rwanda-video/
South Africa
Sudan
- Mundri Community Library
Mundri, Sudan
Support Group: Mundri Relief & Development Association FAVL Blog
Tanzania
Libraries for Tanzania on FACEBOOK
- Kwekitui Primary School Library
Kwekitui, Lushoto District, Tanzania (near Mbelei)
Librarian: Rogers Shelukindo shelukindo07@yahoo.com +255 787 246 169
Founded by Tanga Youth Development Association http://www.tayodea.org
Director: David Chanyeghea info@tayodea.com
Supported by Under The Reading Tree http://www.underthereadingtree.org
- Chamazi Community Library
Chamazi, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Founded by UVIKIUTA
Director: Ben Mongi +255 754 833 909
Supported by Africa Community Technical Services http://www.acts.ca
Director: David Moore +250 339 1212
Project Officer: Sarah Switzer +255 776 565 545 (Tanzania) or +250 339 1212 (Canada)
- Mvumi Community Library
Mvumi, Tanzania
Organization: Friends of African Village Libraries www.favl.org
Uganda
- Caezari Public Library
Buikwe Village, Uganda
Organization: Under the Reading Tree underthereadingtree.org
- Kagoma Community Library
Kagoa, Uganda
Organization: Under the Reading Tree and INFORALL underthereadingtree.org
- Mpigi Community Library
Mpigi, Uganda
Organization: Under the Reading Tree underthereadingtree.org
- Kwekitui Community Library
Kwekitui, Uganda
Organization: Under the Reading Tree underthereadingtree.org
- Uganda has 5 public universities and 8 private universities. This pdf lists the universities and the method of cataloging in their libraries http://www.imeicc5.com/download/IME-ICC5_COUNTRY_REPORT_Uganda.pdf
- African Bible Colleges also has a library http://abuuganda.org/
Zambia
- The Lubuto Library Project - Lusaka, Zambia http://www.lubuto.org/
book collection +4,000, XO computers
blog http://blog.lubuto.org
- Univ. of Zambia has several libraries - details here http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/10th/roundtable/zambiahk.pdf
African literacy resources and projects
- list of library/literacy projects in Africa http://community.eldis.org/.59bf83cb/
- Book Aid International Book donations http://community.eldis.org/.59bc2051/ - group on good practice in book donations
- ebooks 4 free: http://community.eldis.org/.59959bbd/ - useful references to books available on the net for librarians as well as resources such as Where there is no doctor and Child-to-child readers - useful for those libraries that might have access to the net.
- Tar Heel Reader http://tarheelreader.org/ - a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. You may write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or pictures you upload.
- One Laptop Per Child Project (XO computers) http://laptop.org
- XO at Lubuto Library http://blog.lubuto.org/2009/02/xo-update.html
- Rwanda aims for one laptop per child http://blog.laptop.org/2009/03/30/worldfocusorgs-olpc-rwanda-video/
- President John Kufuor and The Ghana Laptop per Child Foundation seed OLPC in Ghana with 10,000 laptops. http://glpcgh.org/
Translation tools and applications
- CatsCradle http://www.tucows.com/preview/306058 - software programme that helps you to translate from web page to web page. It is not a mechanical translator. It puts the text of a web page into a box, and you type its translation into another box. It then looks after all the tags with controls and commands so the result is the same web page but in your language of choice. CC 3.5 allows you to translate into languages with non Latin characters, and those that write from right to left.
Languages with special characters
- Ewe
