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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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

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Ethiopia

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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


  • President John Kufuor and The Ghana Laptop per Child Foundation seed OLPC in Ghana with 10,000 laptops. http://glpcgh.org/


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Kenya


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Rwanda


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South Africa


Sudan

  • Mundri Community Library
    Mundri, Sudan
    Support Group: Mundri Relief & Development Association FAVL Blog


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Tanzania

Libraries in 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

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Uganda

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Zambia


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African literacy resources and projects

  • 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.



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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