Our impact

With  140 Ideas Box kits implemented in emergency and reconstruction contexts, we are providing more than one million refugees, displaced and people in vulnerable situations with the means to reconnect with the world, gain self-reliance, and strengthen childhood education.

We contribute within the United Nations (ECOSOC, INEE) and through an international call to action (L’Urgence de Lire), to change humanitarian action towards better taking into account the intellectual needs and aspirations of people in vulnerable situations.

With more than  4.5 million Khan Academy users in French, support provided to more than 300 libraries around the world, more than 150 Digital Traveler Clubs and 25 Ideas Box kits already adopted by local communities, we fight against inequalities in access to education and cultural diversity around the world.

We advocate  for libraries to become motors of inequality-reduction and central to the development of people and communities. 

With more than 5,000 librarians trained on the BSF Campus platform and several dozen organizations supported in their social innovation projects each year, we seek to boost entrepreneurship and innovation in libraries.

We take part in the evolution of the librarian’s profession towards an entrepreneurial approach. and we develop measures of the economic and social impacts of libraries.