BiblioTaptap

Help us transform a vehicle into a mobile and multicolored library, traveling the roads of Haiti! It’s the BiblioTaptap!

Project visual BiblioTaptap
Successful
127
Contributions
07/31/2013
End date
€8,250
Out of €7,500
110 %

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BiblioTaptap

<p> <u><strong>1) Who are we?</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> We’re<strong> Libraries Without Borders, a leading NGO promoting cultural and social development through access to books in France and around the world.</strong> We operate in over 20 countries, with a special focus in Haiti. To encourage long-term and sustainable development, we believe that it is first of all necessary to supply communities with tools to educate themselves, to disseminate information and knowledge internally, to reduce the digital divide within their communities, and to draw on their own unique and local heritage. In other words, we promote the idea that the library is above all a kind of toolbox, from which communities can draw and impart knowledge, promote community solidarity and co-existence, as well as support the poor. We would like to tell you about one of our projects in Haiti: the BiblioTaptap.    </p> <p> <u><strong>2) Detailed description of the project:</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> To compensate for the lack of cultural institutions in Haiti,<strong> we created, in partnership with the principal library institutions in Haiti, a mobile library system similar to the Haitian collective taxis, or TapTaps.</strong> It occurred to us that this was the simplest and most effective way to bring books directly into communities that do not otherwise have access to them. There are currently 2 BiblioTaptaps operating in Haiti’s Northern Department and in the Port-au-Prince region. They carry nearly 3,000 books in French and Haitian Creole (novels, newspapers, comics, poetry, etc). Two trained operators welcome the public, offering cultural activities, readings, puppet shows, debates, and so on... Children can also find colored pencils, paper, a reading area, and much more!</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Photo_bibliotaptap" height="345" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18256/Photo_BiblioTaptap.JPG" width="459"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Img_1244" height="345" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18257/IMG_1244.jpg" width="460"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="102_0471" height="344" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18258/102_0471.JPG" width="459"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Developing the desire to read, opening up new horizons, sparking creativity, and communicating with others</strong>:<strong> </strong>these are some of the main tasks of a library, making it an indispensable tool for social well-being. This is also the mission of BiblioTaptap. It allows us to offer a fair and open library, accessible to all, and to decentralize cultural infrastructures and promote the "pleasure" reading, thus encouraging the creativity of  the TapTap’s 1400 monthly visitors.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Img_1221" height="340" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18255/IMG_1221.jpg" width="425"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="P1000628" height="317" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18259/P1000628.JPG" width="423"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="P1000647" height="317" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18263/P1000647.JPG" width="424"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="P1000630" height="317" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18264/P1000630.JPG" width="423"></p> <p>  </p> <p> The overwhelming success of the first two BiblioTaptaps has convinced us of the need for a third, which will serve the Central Department.<strong> This is where you come in!</strong> We need your support to put this third Haitian mobile library on the road.</p> <p>  </p>

Allocation of funds

<p> Your participation<strong> will transform a Toyota pickup truck into a BiblioTaptap</strong>, a mobile library painted in the colors of the collective taxis, which have become typical aspect of the Haitian landscape. A local association of Haitian artists, the APATAH (Association for the Association of the Painter’s and Artisan’s of Haitian Taptaps) will oversee the vehicle’s transformation.</p> <p> <strong>You will help thousands of children, adults and families gather around the BiblioTaptap, its books and its leaders.</strong> Help us to sand, paint, furnish and equip the pick-up to make it a veritable mobile library!</p> <p>  </p> <p> We’re asking for your help <strong>to finance the transformation of the pickup, in raising the sum of 7,500 €.</strong> Thanks to your help we will be able to furnish the interior, install shelving, and paint the body!</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Bibliotaptap02" height="282" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18260/BiblioTaptap02.jpg" width="425"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Bibliotaptap06" height="641" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/18261/BiblioTaptap06.jpg" width="427"></p> <p>  </p> <p> If we exceed the target amount, we will use the money to finance the purchase of Haitian books. Each euro received will go directly to this project!</p> <p>  </p> <p> <u>Our partners:</u></p> <p>  </p> <p> The European Union</p> <p> Digicel Foundation</p> <p> The ICFC</p> <p> The National Directorate of Haitian Books</p> <p> The Haitian National Library</p> <p> The Knowledge and Freedom Foundation</p> <p> Le Comptoir Général</p>

Rewards

€1

  • 5 contributions
Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée de notre site

€10

  • 24 contributions
Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée de notre site + une carte postal du BiblioTaptap

€20

  • 28 contributions
Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée de notre site + un porte-clé du BiblioTaptap

€50

  • 12 contributions
Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée de notre site + un porte crayons à l'effigie du BiblioTaptap

€100

  • 5 contributions
Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée de notre site + une affiche sérigraphiée du BiblioTaptap

€200

  • 2 contributions
Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée de notre site + un sac sérigraphié du BiblioTaptap

€300

Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée sur de site + votre taille en livres que vous choisirez dans notre base logistique

€500

  • 1 contribution
Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée de notre site + votre taille en livres que vous choisirez dans notre base logistique + affiche sérigraphiée + un sac sérigraphié

€2,500

Votre nom et une photo de vous en compagnie de votre livre préféré sur une page dédiée de notre site + une invitation en Haïti, pour découvrir sur place les actions de BSF (frais du transport non inclus)

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