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Resources to empower girls worldwide
Women rightsEducationInternational
With 2 €,
Bibliothèques Sans Frontières finances:
1 book(s) and game(s) distributed to young girls
4,697 €15,000 €
250 Captains
Challenge
Everywhere in the world, girls and young women face violence and discrimination. Access to culture, knowledge and information are key to combating this scourge for two reasons:
- in a logic of prevention, so that they gain the confidence and awareness they need to overcome self-censorship and/or overcome discrimination ;
- in a logic of curation, to help them survive (in cases of violence in particular) and rebuild, via the use of culture as a means of escape and creation to recount their trauma, and access to knowledge as a tool for building their future (crafts, entrepreneurship etc).
However, Libraries Without Borders notes that very often, young girls and women are less numerous to visit its programs, which the NGO therefore wishes to enrich and adapt to these issues.
Solution
The aim is to carry out a project to enrich the resources and activities made available to each of Libraries Without Borders' programs, in 36 different languages, via:
- work to select and create new adapted content (books, videos, moocs etc.);
- the design of teaching kits to run specific workshops for young girls (self-confidence, speaking out, creativity, orientation, civic mobilization etc.), in partnership with experts on the subject, with a view to prevention.
Recent result
Development of the Ideas Box 4 women program, part 1 of this project, (https://www.bibliosansfrontieres.org/impact/ideas-box-4-women-des-espaces-demancipation-pour-les-filles-et-les-femmes/), which aimed to raise awareness of inequalities.
The money will be used for
The money raised will be used to set up a team of educational experts to select and/or create suitable content and resources.
Goal
Libraries Without Borders aims to enrich its catalog with around a hundred new contents and resources that will be made available to all projects, reaching thousands of women and girls over several years.
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BSF empowers vulnerable populations by facilitating access to education, culture and information.
In France and in more than 30 countries, BSF creates innovative cultural and educational spaces that enable people affected by crises and precariousness to learn, have fun, create links and build their future.
BSF empowers people through adaptable and innovative devices like the Ideas Box, a media library in kit form that can be deployed in less than twenty minutes and contains books, board games, creative materials, computers, tablets or even a cinema.From Ukrainian refugees to Burundian street children, from teenagers in Marseille's northern suburbs to isolated elderly people in rural France, their aim is to bring culture and information closer to those who are furthest from it, making it a genuine vector for social cohesion and emancipation.
BSF empowers people through adaptable and innovative devices like the Ideas Box, a media library in kit form that can be deployed in less than twenty minutes and contains books, board games, creative materials, computers, tablets or even a cinema.From Ukrainian refugees to Burundian street children, from teenagers in Marseille's northern suburbs to isolated elderly people in rural France, their aim is to bring culture and information closer to those who are furthest from it, making it a genuine vector for social cohesion and emancipation.
Madagascar: education in action in rural areas
In Madagascar, access to education for young people, particularly girls, is a major challenge, especially in rural areas.
Bibliothèques Sans Frontières has been deploying a Ideas Box within the Fianarantsoa campus and five Ideas Cubes in several surrounding "success boarding schools" since 2022 to improve the quality of education for disadvantaged middle-school students.Trained by BSF teams, the teachers use these tools and their tailor-made content on a daily basis to reinforce their skills and combat school dropout.
Bibliothèques Sans Frontières has been deploying a Ideas Box within the Fianarantsoa campus and five Ideas Cubes in several surrounding "success boarding schools" since 2022 to improve the quality of education for disadvantaged middle-school students.Trained by BSF teams, the teachers use these tools and their tailor-made content on a daily basis to reinforce their skills and combat school dropout.
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"Building, every day, a more open and peaceful world through better sharing of knowledge."
Patrick Weil, president and founder of BSF
Patrick Weil, president and founder of BSF
In 2022, the actions of Bibliothèques Sans Frontières benefited 450,000 people in 18 countries. From emergency libraries installed on the borders of Ukraine to the creation of a French learning app for refugees and the development of an educational kit on media literacy, our teams have continued to innovate and reinvent themselves this year in order to respond as effectively as possible to the needs of the most vulnerable.
Discover in particular our project against conflict-related sexual violence in partnership with the UN.
1/5: that's the proportion of refugee or displaced women who have already been victims of sexual violence(source: UN).
In October 2022 in Paris, Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and Patrick Weil, President and Founder of BSF, signed a groundbreaking partnership agreement. The main thrust of this partnership will be the deployment of Ideas Box libraries to support victims of sexual violence in areas where these war crimes are committed. Staffed by professionals, our secure spaces will help victims rebuild their lives through psychological and legal support, as well as vocational training.
Discover in particular our project against conflict-related sexual violence in partnership with the UN.
1/5: that's the proportion of refugee or displaced women who have already been victims of sexual violence(source: UN).
In October 2022 in Paris, Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and Patrick Weil, President and Founder of BSF, signed a groundbreaking partnership agreement. The main thrust of this partnership will be the deployment of Ideas Box libraries to support victims of sexual violence in areas where these war crimes are committed. Staffed by professionals, our secure spaces will help victims rebuild their lives through psychological and legal support, as well as vocational training.
In this activity report, explore the key projects of recent months, dive with us into the association's highlights and discover our ambitions for tomorrow!
Link to our activity report
Link to our activity report
Libraries to help people regain their confidence
In Lebanon, where 4/5 of the population lives below the poverty line, Bibliothèques Sans Frontières and local association Amel are working together to strengthen access to education and autonomy for local and refugee populations.
Since 2021, 3 of our mobile "Ideas Box" media libraries have been deployed throughout the country to enable participants to regain their confidence and benefit from support towards professional integration. Regular slots are set aside for women to take computer training, look for a job or set up their own business in a secure space.
Early this year, our sponsor Augustin Trapenard travelled to Lebanon to visit these Ideas Boxes and meet the animators as well as the beneficiaries of these projects to bear witness to the essential role of education in emergency situations with vulnerable publics.
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