Ideas Box, Libraries without Borders

The Ideas Box is a media kit that fits on two pallets and opens in less than 20 minutes to create a cultural space of 100m2. It represents a unique device to facilitate access to information, culture and education of the population, particularly in humanitarian crisis situations. It helps to reconnect families and has strong impacts on child welfare and strengthening education. Currently, the Ideas Box is deployed in Europe and Jordan to respond to the refugee crisis in partnership with libraries, NGOs and local associations. It is also present in Australia with Aboriginal populations in cooperation with the State Libraries (New South Wales), Burundi in Congolese refugee camps, and in France in emergency shelters and related with municipal libraries (Calais). Through the Ideas Box, Libraries without Borders work to make access to education for all and to develop initiatives and projects by its partners and audiences.

The Ideas Box is installed in the Aubette the Sunday 6 november from 14h00 to 20h00, Monday 7 november from 11h00 to 20h00 and the Tuesday 8 November from 14h00 to 22h00.

Guided visit at 19h00 Tuesday 8 November. Shuttle at 18h30 in front of the Council of Europe.

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Education on wheels

”If a poor boy cannot come to education then education must come to him.”  Education on Wheels is a mobile school. This bus is designed such that it replicates the classroom. It’s equipped with study material, teaching aids, black board, library, laboratory, computers, audio visual, sound system & Digital class. Education on Wheels is striving to literate slum children & disadvantaged communities on their door steps. The teachers gather children and conduct the class inside  bus for three hours and then the bus drives to its next destination. The beneficiaries are children on the street, in Red light areas, Construction labour wards, Child beggars and kids who are deprived of education.

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