The Library Project donates libraries to improve children’s literacy. Children gain access to a beautiful school library providing fun and interesting children’s books that spark their imaginations and promote a lifelong love of reading. Having fun educational books that are easily available helps to encourage independent learning, intellectual curiosity, and a lifelong passion for reading.
All of our library donations have a teacher training component. This course covers how to properly loan books to students, how to use children’s books in a classroom setting, and how to get the students involved in maintaining their library.
Local language children’s books
We provide a wide range of local language children’s books including history, science, short stories, fairy tales, books for very young readers, children’s dictionaries, children’s reference books, and an assortment of comic books. Each school also receives a full set of children’s encyclopedias for older students. Every book is in full color and of the highest print quality. To acquire our books, we work with various large bookstores’ regional warehouses, online book distributors, and resellers.
Teacher training
The Library Project provides a quality teacher training course. Our teacher training course is created specifically for teachers and administrators to learn how to manage their library. This course covers how to properly care for their library, use the books in a classroom setting, and get the teaching staff involved in maintaining their library.
Why is this important?
Teachers play a vital role. We have discovered that our teacher training course leads to 94% of our libraries being used effectively on a daily to weekly basis after the first year. These results are a source of pride for everyone at The Library Project and motivate us to continue striving toward our goals each day. The Library Project conducts a one-year monitoring and evaluation process, and when schools require additional support, they receive extra training.
Donor volunteer involvement
At The Library Project, we are proud of all our donor volunteers. Simply put, we could not do what we do without their support. Volunteerism at The Library Project is real work. We encourage you to attend your library donation. You will leave a library donation tired, happy, and feeling as if they positively impacted the lives of children attending a rural primary school.
Get your company involved
Over the past twenty years, The Library Project has worked with hundreds of corporate partners to improve rural literacy in Asia. Each partnership begins with our organization listening to the corporation’s needs and crafting a CSR program that fits the company’s culture. This is a big reason why 80% of our revenue came from repeat corporate donors.
To learn more about how you can get your company involved, please click here.
Where We Work
At The Library Project, we’re dedicated to improving children’s literacy in communities where access to books and learning resources is limited. We work with schools, community centers, and local partners to build libraries, provide teacher training, and support family reading at home.
Our goal is simple: to ensure every child, no matter where they live, has the opportunity to read, learn, and grow.
- Where We Work
- 2026-2028 Planned Growth