By Katherine Trujillo | Deputy Director
Libraries Without Borders is excited to announce that we will be re-activating the Ideas Box program in Puerto Rico this summer!
After running a successful pilot in Loiza and La Perla, the Clinton Global Initiative highlighted our Ideas Box project at their Post-Disaster Recovery Action Network’s convening last January. Shortly thereafter, we received a generous donation from Sony to re-activate our Ideas Box program and expand our efforts to serve the community of Loiza.
This donation, coupled with the integral support of people like you, will ensure that we can provide children and youth in Loiza with leadership and STEM learning opportunities — from virtual reality to hands-on creative endeavors at our pop-up makerspace — as well as arts and culture programming. In the months to come, we will host a town hall in Loiza, during which community members will have the chance to tell us exactly what kind of activities and programming they want to see at the Ideas Box. We’ll also continue to work with our local partners to re-design the Ideas Box, transforming it into the first hurricane resistant, solar-powered pop-up library in the world!
Stay tuned for more updates on the Ideas Box program in Puerto Rico!
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