This project has not yet received sufficient funding to be fully implementing. Moreover, we continue to have difficulties recruiting a qualified person to operate the Houndé multimedia center and do the training in the center. A meeting was held in December 2017 with staff from the office of the mayor in Houndé, as we continue to work with them for effective solutions to staffing and operations problems for the two libraries in the Houndé region and the multimedia center. (See photos below, where the mayor of Houndé signed the convention for partnership for operations of the two libraries.) Thank you for being patient with us.
FAVL continues to operate 34 community libraries in Burkina Faso. Our latest December 2017 newsletter is available here. In the coming months of 2018, we will continue to supply libraries in our network with new books, as funding permits. We are also producing 16 more photo books for distribution in the libraries.
Thanks donors for hanging in there with FAVL! We are still awaiting hiring of a Houndé multimedia center manager to continue to implement these training and literacy programs. We just hired two new program officers for our office in Ouagadougou, and that will enable the national team to devote more attention to the libraries in southwestern Burkina Faso where this activity is focused. A meeting was held in July 2017 with the mayor's office to cooperate more on the two libraries in the Houndé region and the multimedia center.
Here are some of the highlights of FAVL activities in recent months (you can read more on our blog):
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Uganda
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Hello donors and friends of African Village Libraries and reading programs. We are planning on a next workshop in our Houndé Multimedia Center in early January, while students are on break.
Meanwhile, here is an update on FAVL activities in the first quarter of 2017.
In Burkina Faso:
In Ghana:
In the United States:
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Hello donors and friends of African Village Libraries and reading programs. We are planning on a next workshop in our Houndé Multimedia Center in early January, while students are on break.
Meanwhile, here is an update on FAVL activities in 2016 from our annual newsletter.
In Burkina Faso:
In Ghana:
In Uganda:
In the United States:
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Greetings, supporters of FAVL's activities in Burkina Faso! Our girls' computer literacy and leadership program, hosted at FAVL's Houndé Multimedia Center, remains open and active. We have received $2905 (slightly over half our project goal of $5500) from generous supporters like you.
We were fortunate this summer to have an undergraduate from U.C. Berkeley (Matthew) volunteer in Burkina Faso to help with our Hounde multimedia center. Matthew trained one of our new FAVL staff members, Fankani, in using the computers to create books, using Microsoft Publisher.
Matthew also worked with Fankani to organize three smartphone training sessions for young people in Koumbia village. The sessions were held in the Koumbia library, using six smartphones that the library owns. The sessions were mixed gender, including six young men and six young women. The youth learned how to use a browser to do Internet research, how to set-up and manage a Facebook account, and how to communicate with others through texting. The goal was to develop some information literacy skills.
Since Matthew was a volunteer, the costs of the sessions were minimal (transport, pens and paper for participants, snacks, and mobile phone credits for connecting to the Internet), and we have allocated $100 from the project fund for these sessions. We had earlier allocted $250 for the first workshop held in August 2015. We thus have sufficient funds in the project budget to organize a more intensive workshop and purchase a couple of computers, but we are still in the process of recruiting a manager for the Hounde Multimedia Center (no candidate so far has had the needed computer skills). As soon as we hire a manager, we will organize some workshop sessions and purchase the computers.
We thank you for helping bring information literacy to remote rural villages in Burkina Faso, and would greatly appreciate your continued financial support. Our ongoing literacy-building activities continue in Tuy province and updates are regularly posted on the FAVL blog.
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