Overcoming Trauma and Rebuilding in the African Great Lakes

Burundi: Breaking the Taboos of Sexuality

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 ...