Balal Public Library, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo Education Center

Balal Public Library, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo Education Center Balal Public Library is a community initiative that aims to promote Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Me

Balal Public Library is the first public library in Soma which provides safe space for less privilege children to interact and learn basic skills to solve real life issues to meet the challenges face in a fast changing world. At the library children are challenge to think critically to find solutions to some of the issues their communities face. In the previous years, we have expanded to include s

ports and entrepreneurship training to promote critical thinking, innovation, career counseling, mentorship, and healthy life. We also want to provide children with the required technological skills and tools to learn independently to be able to connect to other children around the world to solve real life issues their communities face. Furthermore, as a library we want to encourage children write about local stories and current issues around their community to preserve the cultures and tradition of our community. Balal Public Library is founded on a shared vision of our community that every child deserves a good education to meet the right skills they need to succeed in life. The library was founded in 2011 with funding support from a British Philanthropist Sally Readers who founder of Friends of Gambian Schools FROGS through Kim Lam a United States Peace Corps. Today Balal Public Library has impacted the lives of more than 1000 children who are graduates from the University of the Gambia, Gambia College and other learning institutions in the country.

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Bojang K***a, Soma Cinema Street, Soma
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Balal Public Library Ayuba Suleiman Diallo Education Center, was formed in January, 2011, as a public library operating in The Gambia. It is open to all without distinction of race, gender, origin and religion. It is aimed at advocating and creating awareness on issues affecting societies. Balal Public Library also creates platform for discussing some of the negative issues affecting societies and create awareness of those negative consequences. Education, as the backbone of the organization, helps the initiative on awareness creation, through educational support activities and skills development. This is also embedded into our strategic document; thereby encouraging self-employment opportunities, to minimize illegal migration. ICTs are a proven and effective tool to promote social and human development in many communities and remote regions. It’s also a means of communication with members of the community that have left in search of a better life in the cities or even in other countries. These technologies can be used in diverse ways to promote culture, access information, promote the protection of their rights, start educational processes, and even make them more careful with their way of life and their environment. Over the past decade, there has been a growing understanding that these technologies can be powerful instruments for advancing economic and social development through the creation of new types of economic activity, employment opportunities, improvements in health-care delivery and other services, and the enhancement of networking, participation and advocacy within society. ICT also have the potential to improve interaction between societies fostering transparency and accountability in communities, civil society organization governance just to name a few. This is why Balal Public Library is ready to take a lead in the rural center to promote access to such facilities and lobby for the rural communities to make them available and improve the quality of service of existing ones.