SciDev highlights a Libraries Without Borders project:
An innovative project to set up portable libraries in refugee camps has proven its worth in a three-month assessment of its pilot project in Burundi. There are now plans to expand the initiative across Africa and beyond.
The libraries are known as Ideas Boxes. They can provide refugee camps with access to educational resources and a connection to the outside world -- to "foster creativity" -- says project officer Allister Chang.
"We have three [Ideas Box libraries] in UN Refugee Agency camps in Burundi, as part of a pilot aiming to expand across the Great Lakes African region, and hopefully into other areas of the world," Chang tells SciDev.Net.
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