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Radio France is getting involved with Bibliotheques Sans Frontieres

4 years of the Ideas Box, 1 million users throughout the world

Libraries Without Borders Honored At 2018 Elastic Cause Awards

Libraries Without Borders is excited to announce that we are a 2018 Elastic Cause Award honoree! The Elastic Cause Awards, which took place at the Elastic{ON} opening keynote address in San Francisco on February 27, 2018, recognized LWB as one ...

Homeless Youth in Senegal Find Solace in the Ideas Box

For the past two years, Future to Present and Libraries Without Borders have been working together to improve access to education for homeless and exploited youth in Ziguinchor, a city located in the south of Senegal. Seyni Diedhiou has been ...

Rebuilding the Future with the Ideas Box: The Story of Consolata

Imagine being a highly educated woman with a beautiful family, a promising career, and a bright future. Now, imagine having to leave all of that behind in a matter of terror-filled seconds. This is the story, the reality, of Consolata, a once ...

Bringing College-Level Classes to Congolese Refugees through Coursera

In February 2014, Libraries Without Borders (LWB) launched two Ideas Boxes in the Kavumu and Musasa refugee camps in Burundi in an effort to address the pressing needs of Congolese refugees fleeing the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Within ...

Four Years of the Ideas Box

A note from Patrick Weil, the Chairman and Founder of Libraries Without Borders Four years ago, Libraries Without Borders implemented the first Ideas Box in Burundi. Today, we are eager to share how this program has developed and grown over ...

Re-Imagining the Role of Libraries in Calais

“The library is an important public institution where people from all walks of life can gain access to information regardless of their ability to pay. It is also the first place where people can gain access to culture. For this reason, it is ...

The Exile of an Iranian Family

On the night of April 10 2017, a fire devastated the Lisnière refugee camp of Grande-Synthe, which Doctors Without Borders had opened earlier that year at the request of the local mayor, Damien Carême.  At the time, close to 1400 men, women and ...

Building Peace through Libraries in Colombia

  Since the 1960s, Colombia has been in a state of civil war, with fighting primarily taking place between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). As a result of this conflict, 6.9 million people have been ...

Eight KoomBooks implemented in learning facilities in Central African Republic

Detroit Residents Come Together for Free Laundry Day

DETROIT – October 31, 2017 – On Wednesday, November 1st, Libraries Without Borders (LWB) and the LaundryCares Foundation will host “Free Laundry Day,” during which will residents of westside Detroit can enjoy a number of festivities while doing ...

Libraries Without Borders Announces the Legal Literacy Advisory Board

Leveraging our expertise, Libraries Without Borders will provide immigrants in the Washington, DC area with certified legal resources to help them understand their rights and make informed decisions about their lives. Unfortunately, many ...

The Legal Literacy Initiative in Washington, DC

Libraries Without Borders has partnered with legal aid organizations to provide immigrants in the Washington, DC area with legal resources in nontraditional outreach spaces. In the US, countless immigrants receive fraudulent and incomplete legal ...

From Libraries to Laundromats: Learning in Non-Traditional Spaces in Detroit