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Thailand

The Mobile Library Project

In the schools in which Nomad supports, the reading campaigns have been a success, with many children who are now active readers. In contrast, in the other schools in the region, the reading environment is poor and few children read. With the aim of promoting reading in these schools, and bringing to these schools the positive effects obtained through reading, Nomad started a Mobile Library Project in the 2001 fiscal year. So far 12 schools in total, with 3 core schools and their surrounding schools, are involved in this project. Nomad operates its activities with the regions hoping to involve not only children but adults as well in the use of its mobile libraries.

In each school district, books are lent out from library boxes. Books are taken into each school district in library boxes, which include books both children and adults will find to be of interest.


Children carrying library boxes
Children reading the books that have just arrived
Community leader taking care of the mobile library books


The Family Library Project

The Family Library Project, in which Nomad became involved in the 2002 fiscal year, aims to enrich the reading environment for children and local people in rural areas. The environment of the family library in a region provides local people who have little access to books with the feeling of familiarity and gives them the opportunities to read. Reading in a common area like a library deepens the community’s sense of solidarity, thus making people think to run the library actively.

There are 33 family libraries in 3 regions in Phitsanulok province, lending books to both adults and children in their local communities now. Rather than lend out used books, as in the past, these days they lend out new books. Data on how many books are lent out is being collected. The data will be used, compared with the earlier data, to evaluate how many books are read and how many local people are interested in reading.

A family with a family library in Phitsanulok province
An outlook of one of the houses, which has a family library in Phitsanulok province
The family that lives in this house

The Scholarship Project

The Scholarship Project is for students who finish one of the 10 elementary schools where libraries have been built. In the regions where our activities are carried out, there are many children who cannot go on to junior high school for economic reasons, though they have the will to do so. Although the reasons are varied such as their parent(s) died or work(s) away from home, they have a strong desire to go on to junior high school and study.
Nomad awards scholarship to those children for three years until they graduate from junior high school. Forty-two children study with this scholarship, which started in the 2001 fiscal year.



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Building libraries The Mobile Library Project The Family Library Project
Activities to promote reading The Scholarship Project
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