children enjoying books from the mobile basket library!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Mobile library in a cane basket!
These mountains are beautiful but they also pose serious challenges to the mountainous people.
I would like to use this blog of mine to share some interesting facts about a unique mobile library project running in Nepal. It is called Doko Dai Mobile Library Project.
The doko is a cane basket and is used traditionally to carry everything from cattle to fodder to sick people. Doko dai, if literally translated, means a brother carrying a basket and Doko didi a sister carrying a basket.
Now under this project the doko is used to carry books. The sebs website (sebsonline.org) states that the porters (doko dai and doko didi) will lay down their dokos at certain stops along the route. For about a week, the stop will be converted into a mobile library where people can come and read and borrow books, newspapers, magazines and the like. The stops selected are easily accessible, usually schools, bazaars, chautaris (raised platform under a tree) outside the capital.
The undertakers believe that mobile library project is aimed to supplement educational materials and equip local communities with skills required for enhancing earning potential.
I would like to use this blog of mine to share some interesting facts about a unique mobile library project running in Nepal. It is called Doko Dai Mobile Library Project.
The doko is a cane basket and is used traditionally to carry everything from cattle to fodder to sick people. Doko dai, if literally translated, means a brother carrying a basket and Doko didi a sister carrying a basket.
Now under this project the doko is used to carry books. The sebs website (sebsonline.org) states that the porters (doko dai and doko didi) will lay down their dokos at certain stops along the route. For about a week, the stop will be converted into a mobile library where people can come and read and borrow books, newspapers, magazines and the like. The stops selected are easily accessible, usually schools, bazaars, chautaris (raised platform under a tree) outside the capital.
The undertakers believe that mobile library project is aimed to supplement educational materials and equip local communities with skills required for enhancing earning potential.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Images of Nepal
no matter how many times I saw this view it always used to fascinate me and now when I saw it, so far away from home, I found it more beautiful and breathtaking.
Mount Everest
Himalayas of Nepal
Mt. Everest!
This majestic, mystical, and magnificent Mt. Everest aways attracts me toward it like a magnet!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
library blog
creating a blog of my own was easy and exciting! hope this excerise -23 things will help us learn new and advanced technologies.
hope to read more blogs from library bloggers!
hope to read more blogs from library bloggers!
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