The Street CLAC: a mobile library for the CLAC of Yaoundé

Background

Following an ambitious program helping to develop a media center, training staff, increase book collections, and develop income-generating activities to ensure the financial autonomy of the Center for Reading and Cultural Activities (CLAC), LWB and the CLAC began working on a mobile library: the Street CLAC.

The Street CLAC is a mobile library who’s role is to expand the reach of the CLAC and provide access to reading, culture, and information to the population of Yaoundé. The Street CLAC is more than just a library because it offers children, teens, and illiterate women living in these neighborhoods access to new technologies, a rich and varied program of cultural activities, and thematic workshops to raise awareness on issues such as health, environment, and access to law.

Activities

• Acquiring and customizing a bus into a mobile library.
  
• Equipping the mobile library with books, IT material and more.

Objectives

• Expand the reach of the CLAC’s activities outside of its walls.

Duration

2014-2016

Beneficiaries

• The inhabitants of the capital Yaoundé

Executive partners