Provide Trilingual and e library facilities and establish youth library societies – Series 2
Provide Trilingual and e library facilities and establish youth library societies – Series 2
Library is a “Social political and structural Change Agent in Sri Lanka”. Libraries act as an important force for local community development, empowerment and can play a significant role in a community’s social healing cooperation, economic and social development.
The concept of library can be developed to make a bridge between communities. Digitalized libraries with trilingual books can improve the knowledge and awareness about different cultures it will lead to a deep understanding about different customs of others. The link between reader’s forums of each library will be a bridge between youth in all over the country.
This programme will be conducted with the partnership of Library Services Commission. The district and the project locations were selected/ Identified in consultation LSC by ONUR.
SUGGESTED PROGRAMME:
- Identify a library with basic facilities in multiethnic GN divisions (Multiethnic GN divisions have been identified by the census data analysis)
- Identify a community leadership team in each GN division willing to maintain the library/ develop a reader’s forum consist of youth
- Provide books, equipment and internet facilities to improve the standard of the library to the grade certified by the library services commission.
- Provide soft skills training to the youth committee to operate the library at their community.
- Encourage these libraries to be a center of community meeting and exchange
- Make a link between North South youth committees though different activities
- Existing youth council/ Coexistent committee will be interlinked in these initiatives.