By Krystle Austin | Peace Corps Volunteer
We are closing the project for the village library of Dohoun. With the funds raised from GlobalGiving and other generous donations, we have been able to furnish the library with 1,852 books in French, English, Arabic and local languages.
The year 2011 was very successful at the library in Dohoun, which is due in a great part to the motivation of the librarian who encourages villages to patronize the library. In 2011, there were 121 new registrations, 1,390 books checked out and 7,157 at the village library of Dohoun. In the month of January 2012, there were 38 new registrations, 280 books checked out and 882 visitors, so it looks like 2012 is slated to be another successful year for Alidou and his village library! This would not be possible without the donations from sources like GlobalGiving that provide books to libraries like that in Dohoun. In July 2011, the village library hosted a summer reading camp for 25 fourth grade students. The purpose of the camp was to improve their reading skills. Many of the students did not even know how to read the alphabet at the beginning of the camp, but by the end, all of them reached at least an average reading level on their evaluation. We hope that 2012 will be just as successful of a year for the village library of Dohoun!
We'd like to thank all the generous donors who have helped us create a such a popular and integral cultural and informational center in this tiny Burkinabè village. If you are interested in further donating to a FAVL project, we have project to supply a series of graphic novels from Côte d'Ivoire to each of our libraries and to have reading camps for 25 students to improve their reading skills in the months of July, August and September 2012.
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