Home Twitter Facebook YouTube Pinterest Buk bilong Pikinini Promoting literacy in Papua New Guinea Home News About Misssion Statement Board of Directors Annual Reports History Administration Monitoring & Evaluation Libraries PMGH Hohola Lawes Road Six Mile Lae Goroka Koki Markets UPNG Nine Mile Alotau Lae 2 Evadahana Tatana Goroka 2 Manus Island ATS Lelehoa Tari How to support us Make a donation Fundraise for us Organise book drives Shipping information Volunteer for BbP Book wish list Our Donors Buy Our Books Mission Statement Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) supports Papua New Guinean children with access to high quality books and literacy programs. BbP does this by establishing community libraries and by making book donations to re-establish depleted school libraries. Read More Literacy In Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea currently has the lowest levels of literacy in the Pacific and many children are not enrolled at school and sadly remain illiterate for life. Some communities have less than 5% adult literacy. When mothers are illiterate it is very difficult for them to look after their children’s health and well-being. Read More Early Childhood Literacy and Awareness Program Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) establishes libraries for children, which includes an Early Childhood Literacy Program and an After-School Literacy Support program. BbP has libraries based at hospitals, schools, market places, special needs schools and settlements. We believe that ALL children deserve the right to be literate. Read More The theme for Literacy Week 2017 was “Reading: It makes a world of difference!” Donate to Buk bilong Pikinini We need your help to support the children of Papua New Guinea. You can get involved and take action by starting a book drive, making a donation or becoming a corporate partner. Read More If you are literate you can conquer the world! › ‹ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Children in libraries across PNG came dressed in traditional costumes or flag colours to celebrate the 42nd year of independence… On the 7th of September 2017, (during Literacy Week) BbP held a community event at our 6 Mile library to… Buk bilong Pikinini was fortunate to be able to hold four events, produce a TV advertisement about the importance of… On the 8th of April 2017, Buk bilong Pikinini held a "Back to School" event with 350 invited guests to… BbP has engaged Henry Ume as our new Executive Officer. Henry has joined us from the Coalition for Change and… 2017 is a milestone year for Buk bilong Pikinini and we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary on the 8th… Buk bilong Pikinini is grateful to have the support of our two new role model Youth Ambassadors Justin Olam &… Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) celebrated the opening of a library at the Kuluanda Primary School in Tari, Hela Province, on… BbP will launch young PNG Author Iriani Wanma’s Crocodile award winning story “Oa the Grasshopper and Kaipa the Caterpillar” illustrated… Buk bilong Pikinini will be kick-starting Literacy Week with a huge Book Fair to be held at Murray Barracks on… BbP and PNG Air held an event at the BbP Koki Markets Library on Tuesday the 21 June to celebrate… 10th Anniversary fundraising celebration 2017 is a milestone year for Buk bilong Pikinini and we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary… Buk bilong Pikinini held an event with Gadens to thank them for the legal support shown over the last five… The first Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) library was established on the 8th of April 2008 and is located at the… Buk bilong Pikinini has entered into a formal partnership with Oil Search to deliver Early Childhood Development and Literacy… Buk bilong Pikinini has been lucky to receive visits from Hon. Steve Ciobo, Minister for International Development and the… This week for National Literacy Day, across Port Moresby, children at Buk bilong Pikinini were able to have a… Buk bilong Pikinini held its second AGM at the lovely Paddy's Hotel on Tuesday the 25th 2015. The Association… We would like to start the 2015 PNG Literacy Week (8-12 September) by thanking our book donors - for… BbP received a visit from high level Australia based donors at our library next to Evadahana Primary School on the… A great thank you to KramerAusenco and the Ausenco Foundation. Buk Bilong Pikinini held an event at our library for the… We are very proud to introduce Lucinda Gulluman-Kisip as our new Executive Officer. Lucinda has had an extremely busy start… Having produced two great readers about life in traditional villages of PNG, Buk bilong Koki Markets and Our Village: Tatana Island,… Buk bilong Pikinini children and staff were invited to lunch at Hastings Deering this week. We took this opportunity to… Buk bilong Pikinini is proud to announce that Mrs Lynda Babao-O’Neill has accepted our invitation to become our Ambassador. Buk bilong… Buk bilong Pikinini held an event on Friday the 1st of May to thank the owners and directors of Airways… Buk bilong Pikinini held an event in Melbourne on April 1 to celebrate that the talented and celebrated children's books… Buk bilong Pikinini welcomed our patron for 2012, Hon. Richard Marles - Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection to… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to thank Theodist for becoming a Gold Sponsor of the organisation and for hosting a… Buk bilong Pikinini held its first 2015 training sessions in January and Teacher-Librarians from Port Moresby and Provincial libraries attended… On the 18th of December 2014, Australia's Foreign Minister - Hon. Julie Bishop - visited Buk bilong Pikinini's second library… Buk bilong Pikinini is grateful to HeliScope PNG for signing an agreement with us to deliver books across Papua New… A lovely event was hosted by HE Pier Francesco Zazo, Ambassador of Italy to Australia and his wife Mrs Svetlana… An event at Buk bilong Pikinini’s Lawes Road Library in Port Moresby will today celebrate the support the organization has… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to sincerely thank Pamela and Ron Walker for the donation of two antique maps to… On the 1st of August our newest library in Goroka received a very special visitor who had come all the… Buk bilong Pikinini opened its first library on Manus Island on the 19th of June. The library is located in… On Monday the 23rd of June Buk bilong Pikinini welcomed new members of the association, adopted a new constitution and… On Friday the 9th of May Buk bilong Pikinini opened a library with sponsorship from across the globe. This library… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to thank Harper Collins, Hachette, Allen & Unwin and Penguin for the donation of lovely… Buk bilong Pikinini promotes writing for children in Papua New Guinea. In order to encourage Papua New Guineans to put pen… Buk bilong Pikinini and the Bank of South Pacific to build Libraries through the United Nation's Safe Cities Project A Memorandum… Buk bilong Pikinini is proud to introduce Luke Ebbs as our new Executive Officer. Luke succeeds Joanne Grenenger, who we… Buk bilong Pikinini and World Vision has signed an agreement with the Ranuguri Segani Community to establish a library within… Buk bilong Pikinini has just received a donation of amazing children's books from Hardie Grant Egmont, which publishes some of… 2014 has started with a launch of new measures to ensure that even more of the most vulnerable children can… At the invitation of Mrs. Kathrine Lepani, wife of the Papua New Guinea High Commissioner H.E. Charles Lepani, around 30… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to thank Canberra based children's books author Tania McCartney for the donation of copies of… Buk bilong Pikinini is proud to announce that we have received a grant of $ 35,000 through the Fred Archer… Nearly 200 people helped Buk bilong Pikinini celebrate the launch of our new documentary "Literacy: The Buk bilong Pikinini Way"… Buk bilong Pikinini wishes to thank the Harold Mitchell Foundation for their donation of $50,000 of untied funding to support… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to sincerely thank the organisers of a few book drives which have been happening across… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to thank Amanda Donigi and the great team at Stella magazine for including an article… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to thank the organisers of the Papua New Guinea Advantage Summit , Andrew Wilkins and… The Ausenco Foundation and BbP celebrated the signing of a partnership to improve the learning opportunities for disabled children in… What an event! A night under the stars at Airways, surrounded by our sponsors, donors and friends – the Buk… A crowd of 140 people gathered on the 7th of September to celebrate BbP's Annual Fundraising Cocktail Party. The event… Buk bilong Pikinini is proud to introduce our new documentary "Literacy: The Buk bilong Pikinini Way" by Tania Nugent of Kundu Media.… Buk bilong Pikinini is proud to announce that our first monitoring and evaluations report based on the Most Significant Change… Buk bilong Pikinini is grateful to Natural Resource Assessments (NRA) for their ongoing sponsorship of BbP library teachers. The NRA… A Teddy Bears Picnic was held on Sunday the 28th of July as part of BbP's fundraising initiatives. The event was… Acclaimed author, Drusilla Modjeska, has accepted an invitation from Buk bilong Pikinin to become a Patron of the organisation. Drusilla… The official opening for the library near the Makana/Morobe 9 Mile Community settlement was popular with the community when ribbons… Buk bilong Pikinini will be looking forward to be celebrating the first birthday of the beautiful Stella magazine edited by… Children's book author Hellen Tanner has just donated 1000 copies of her new book Oscar goes to the Moon to… Buk bilong Pikinini celebrated a ground breaking ceremony with the Tatana Island community and donors on Thursday the 4th of… Despite busy times in Canberra The Department of Treasury has again conducted a book drive to support Buk bilong Pikinini.… Benjamin McGregor (4 years old), who attends Pre-Kindergarten at Canberra Grammar Boys Northside Campus, has donated his pocket money saved… Buk bilong Pikinini held a soft opening… Mundango Abroad, which is a small private ancillary fund set up to support Australian DGRs that work overseas, has chosen… Buk bilong Pikinini wishes to thank wild dog publishing for a generous donation of more than 1000 new books. The… Buk bilong Pikinini celebrated World Environment Day this week and the children got very busy indeed! The libraries celebrated this special… The Buk bilong Pikinini Awareness programme keeps getting better and better - our Literacy and Library Programme Team have some… Tim Costello, CEO of World Vision Australia, visited two of the Port Moresby Community Children's Education project sites on Saturday… H.E. Quentin Bryce - the Australian Governor General visited our UPNG library on Friday the 24th of April Children from… Gadens Lawyers is a long term supporter of Buk bilong Pikinini and has now become a Silver Sponsor. The law… Hastings Deering staff members from Australia and PNG paid a special visit to the BbP library at UPNG that they… Michelle Moss (pictured above), from the International Services of the Australian Electoral Commission, organised a morning tea this week to… Buk bilong Pikinini in very good company! Drusilla Modjeska visited a couple of BbP libraries in 2012 and decided to support… The Chairman and CEO of Swire, Mr. William Rothery, paid a visit to the Lawes road BbP library on the… Executive Officer, Joanne Grenenger is proud to introduce the new team who will be working in the two libraries in… Buk bilong Pikinini opened the 11th library on Tuesday the 26th of February 2013 with the Bank of South Pacific.… The ever growing Buk bilong Pikinini family wishes you a Happy New Year! Thank you for all your support in… Buk bilong Pikinini was delighted to have a visit by Mrs. Lynda O'Neill, a local business woman but also the… Milestone library opens in Alotau! Buk bilong Pikinini has entered into double digits with the opening of our 10th library on… Buk bilong Pikinini is currently working on the first library to be established for BSP in Lae, Morobe Province. The… Buk bilong Pikinini is proud to announce that we have a new Patron - Bart Philemon - former Treasurer in… It was a special day for BbP on Monday the 5th of November 2012 as we received a visit by… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to thank the children at Canberra Boys Grammar for their financial donation and Canberra Girls… NRL stars Martin Kennedy from the Sydney Roosters and Jason Tali from the Kumuls visited our library at the University… On Friday the 21 of September Buk bilong Pikinini received a second Toyota Hiace Commuter from our amazing sponsor Ela… Buk bilong Pikinini would like to thank the Blue Water Living residents in Cairns for doing a book collection for… Buk bilong Pikinini opened its ninth library on 22 of August next to the large Nine Mile settlement just outside… "Dear Buk bilong PikininiI am back from Kokoda and happy to tell you that I was able to raise $800… Lorg-term Buk bilong Pikinini supporter Theodist has upgraded its sponsorship level to become a Silver Sponsor. The wonderful Kevin and… Buk bilong Pikinini re-opened the Koki Markets Community Library in November 2011 previously established by Dame Carol Kidu. Buk bilong… ReadSpeaker on our websiteWhen you can't read, how do you understand the words on a website? One of our sponsors,ReadSpeaker,… Buk bilong Pikinini aims to foster a love for reading among children that will hopefully last a lifetime. In order to… Buk bilong Pikinini libraries are literally bursting with children! Buk bilong Pikinini ran its first ever week-long annual training programme in January this year. In total, 27 of our staff… The first anniversary of the Buk bilong Pikinini library at Koki Markets was celebrated on the 11th of November 2011.… On 1st. June 2011 Rachael James, Miss PNG came to launch Buk bilong Pikinini's theme for the month of June which is… › ‹ News & Events +Read More BbP children celebrate Independence Day Children in libraries across PNG came dressed in traditional costumes or flag colours to celebrate the 42nd year of independence… Read More +Read More Partnership with the National Library and Archives On the 7th of September 2017, (during Literacy Week) BbP held a community event at our 6 Mile library to… Read More +Read More Literacy Week 2017 Buk bilong Pikinini was fortunate to be able to hold four events, produce a TV advertisement about the importance of… Read More +Read More A great event to celebrate our 10th Anniversary On the 8th of April 2017, Buk bilong Pikinini held a "Back to School" event with 350 invited guests to… Read More +Read More Please welcome our new Executive Officer BbP has engaged Henry Ume as our new Executive Officer. Henry has joined us from the Coalition for Change and… Read More +Read More BbP will be celebrating 10 years 2017 is a milestone year for Buk bilong Pikinini and we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary on the 8th… Read More "Illiteracy is everybody’s concern, and there is an urgent need now for all sectors in government and society, that eradication of illiteracy be one of our national development priorities." Sir Paulias Matane, Former Governor General, PNG Buk bilong Pikinini Gallery Programs & Publishing BbP’s Early Childhood Literacy and Awareness Program. Learn More Buk bilong Komuniti Program for book donations, training and library establishment. Learn More BbP is now publishing books for PNG children. Learn how you can sponsor a book. Learn More Important BbP Info Buk bilong Pikinini roughly translates to "books for children". Learn More Learn more about upcoming special events for Buk bilong Pikinini in 2016. Learn More The history behind the establishment of Buk bilong Pikinini. Learn More Tweets by @BbPPNG Buk bilong Pikinini Buk bilong Pikinini is an independent charity based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea which aims to foster a life-long love of reading and learning, increase literary rates and empower vulnerable children. Buk bilong Pikinini aims to do this via the establishment of children’s libraries in target communities across PNG and by providing books and literacy materials to communities and schools in need. How To Help Donating to Buk bilong Pikinini Organising Book Drives Volunteer Send us your pre-loved books Stay Connected Facebook Twitter YouTube Pinterest Contact Us About Us Copyright Buk bilong Pikinini 2016 Top