- 20 February 2017

Training Center in Niamey

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

LEPAD (Ecole – Parrainage et Actions de Développement) plays a key role in efforts to enhance the capacities of the country’s school teachers and thereby gradually but durably improve the conditions in which students learn.

LWB shares this long-term vision and closely works with EPAD to create a space for documentation and information in the Association’s training center.

While it is true that educational structures struggle to grow in the country, pedagogical material is even scarcer. Most secondary schools and establishments have no library and lack books (manuals, textbooks, literature) to help promote literacy and the educational trajectory. The creation of a library and documentary collection will make a mobile book reserve available to the region.

OBJECTIVES

  • To encourage and diversify free access to books and technical documentation for the pupils, teachers and interns of the EPAD training center in Niamey and its surroundings.
  • To support the EPAD’s training and educational support missions by contributing pedagogical material.
  • To support the pedagogical missions of the EPAD network schools by providing them with a reserve collection consisting of manuals and textbooks.
  • To energize and support the local book supply chain by establishing a large, cross-disciplinary library.

ACTIVITIES

  • Installation of a documentary space within the EPAD training center.
  • Contribution (donation and purchase from local publishers) of 6000 books to make the Center a book-centered meeting place and site of activity.
  • Contribution, storage, referencing and distribution of around 5000 pedagogical books for the EPAD school network.
  • Training staff in how to run a small library.
  • Computerization of the library space and establishment of a computerized catalog of collections.
  • Training of an archivist / librarian in how to manage and schedule events at a library.

BENEFICIARIES

  • The 3000 children and adolescents under the age of 15 years old who will benefit from the Center’s youth area and open access school books.
  • The 2500 students and young people from the nearby University of Niamey and / or those benefiting from the EPAD’s training programs.
  • The 500 school teachers in the EPAD network who benefit from its expertise and training – the Center’s pedagogical tools will allow them to access material in support of their teaching.
  • The 1000 adults who will be able to find technical documentation on particular subjects (mechanics, practical life, etc.) as well as francophone literature at the Center.
  • The 30,000 school children of the 140 schools supported by the EPAD who will benefit from the reserve collection.

PARTNERS

  • EPAD-Niger
  • Ministry of Culture and Communication, Books and Reading Office
  • The Teaching League and its “No Education, No Future” campaign