Inform the World Librarian Volunteer Program Inform the World Librarian Volunteer Program Sponsor a Volunteer Libraries feed hungry minds in rural Africa. By teaching children to love books, assisting health workers to teach disease prevention, providing entrepreneurs with business models and giving farmers new ways to increase production and protect the environment, libraries provide the fuel for sustainable development and change. No wonder the Ndebele word for library means granary of knowledge.
Libraries nourish communities with ideas they can use to build a better future.
As Inform the World volunteers, they will spend one month living and working in Africa. Together with their African counterparts, the volunteers will complete practical projects to improve rural libraries and ensure that they will enrich generations of readers. When they return, the volunteers will use their personal experiences in the field to connect African and American libraries and bring communities together. The volunteers will help African librarians to bring new readers to the library, organize books so that readers can find them, and raise funds to purchase new books. The volunteers have already committed to giving their time and expertise to assist African communities.