BIBLIOBUS – MOBILE LIBRARY
Suburbs of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
DESCRIPTION
BIBLIOBUS – MOBILE LIBRARY – COMPLETED
This project targets brickyard workers’ families in the suburbs of Phnom Penh. There are three levels of project activities: 1) a weekly mobile library for children, which offers animations around books as well as book lending to children and adults; 2) educational tutoring activities in collaboration with local primary schools; and 3) a monthly “health” mobile library that offers a health, nutrition and hygiene awareness campaign for children and adults.
Based essentially on developing reading and fighting against illiteracy, SIPAR has been working since 1982 in all of Cambodia’s regions with one unique objective: make books an educational lever, transport them and make them accessible to the most underprivileged populations.
Project cofinanced by Luciole Foundation.
IMPACT / MAIN INDICATORS
• Bibliobus visits eight suburban villages next to brick factories twice a week
• Beneficiaries: 1219 people, including 370 children who do not attend school
LOCAL
PARTNER
SIPAR Phnom Penh
Selection
Duration
Project selected in September 2017
Multi-year project: 6 years
Financed
by
The Comgest Foundation
COMMENT FROM THE AMBASSADOR
Isabelle d’Imperio
In five years, we have been able to observe a higher rate of schooling for children with improved reading and arithmetic abilities, better hygiene and health conditions, positive socialization… with an effect on parents who have, among other things, improved their perception of the education and protection of their children.
A collaboration has been established with the managers of the brickyards as well as with the four primary schools which welcome children, thus offering them new learning and schooling opportunities, something that seemed unattainable just a few years ago.