Community Libraries & Book Development

Community Libraries & Book Development Program

Literacy must come alive outside of the classroom to be sustained, and to contribute to empowerment. The Community Libraries & Book Development Program supports community, village and neighbourhood libraries to help reinforce literacy skills, nurture a culture of reading, and foster independent, lifelong learning. The libraries we support are for women, men and youth and double as classrooms for literacy courses and as community spaces for meeting, information-sharing and planning. We also seek to support the development of high quality local language reading material from within Afghanistan, and to make books accessible in schools.

Please CLICK HERE to read about ongoing workshops (March 2012: Workshop on Libraries Programming and Outreach Activities) and resources provided by and/or for those individuals and organizations who are working in Afghanistan in the area of Library and Book Development.

The Community Libraries and Book Development Program projects which are supported by CW4WAfghan are listed on the side panel.