Vote for Librarians Without Borders: Help Build a Library in Haiti

YOU can help us win $15,000 to build and develop a library for Lycee Jean-Baptiste Cineas, a public school located in the city of Limbe, Haiti. The voting is now over, so we wait now to hear the results! Thanks to all of our supporters for voting over the two-week time period. Your voice counted!

How did it work? Your ONE vote daily until June 25 could help to bring a school library to 2,000 students.

#1 Vote via Facebook daily for us to win this literacy grant!

#2 Use this calendar reminder to remember to vote every day.

#3 Share this voting link with your friends.

#4 Read more about our proposed project in Limbe!

#5 Join our Facebook conversations (and meet other voters!)

The school has only basic amenities and lacks a library with reading materials. Without supplemental reading and research materials, says the school’s director Mr. Jean-Baptiste, students rely on rote classroom learning. Staff, students, and school administration identified a library as being one of their greatest needs, and LWB has offered our support to them.

From Gerald Jean Baptiste, Director of the School:

Je tiens a apprecier le courage et la determination de toute cette belle equipe de LIBRARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS pour leur devouement a la cause du Lycee Jean-Baptiste Cineas du Limbe. J’ai pris note de tous vos efforts et vous en serai toujours reconnaissant. BONJOUR AMICAL a Chacune et a Chacune de VOUS!

Our relationship began by seeding their library collection with a book-drive run by our LWB McGill University committee, and has evolved into a pledge to the staff and students by LWB International to mark their 20th school anniversary in January 2013 with an in-progress library to commemorate the occasion.