Friends of Ecole Agape members gathered together to help bind books for the Reading Room’s flash libraries in Haiti.
What is a flash library? It’s a portable library that has from 700 to 1,000 books in French and Creole set up on rolling book carts. When it’s time to use the library, the classroom is instantly transformed in a “flash” by moving desks and chairs out of the room and bookshelves into the main area.
Flash libraries support schools with limited space and can serve more than 200 students before, during, or after school, over the weekends, and for summer programs. They cost about a third of the price of building a permanent school library, and can often cost much less.
Learn more about The Reading Room here and their mission to bring joy and the power of reading to Haiti’s children with flash libraries.
Six smiling women from Friends of Ecole Agape, Inc., creating books in Creole and French. All supportive of and working in solidarity with Elizabeth and Paul Wick’s Reading Room in Haiti.
Diane Giggey explains the operation of the coil/spiral binding machine to Rikke Wassenberg. First the story in Creole, then the story in French, separated by a black divider.
Judy Belek doing a little quality control. Nothing gets past Inspector Belek.