The Tuk-Tuk Library is a mobile library that includes:
The Tuk-Tuk Library visits schools in the villages surrounding Luang Prabang with books, learning activities and games. The Tuk-Tuk Library contains books for ages 3-18.
When the Tuk-Tuk Library goes to a village school, librarians and volunteers go with it and they take a full book-bag of 100 books, which is loaned to the students for a period of 2-6 weeks so they have a continual supply of new books to read.
The librarians spend the day with the children conducting fun reading games, teaching them how to respect books, teaching singing games etc. They also play games with the students which teach teamwork, coordination, group involvement and other skills - all conveyed through play. Hygiene promotion through songs, stories and drama will have long-term positive outcomes for students’ health. If time allows, writing skills will be worked on, with story and poetry competitions. By involving the local teacher in these activities as well, they will educate the local teacher on how to run these kinds of activities in their classrooms in the future.
The children will also be given either a health bag containing soap, toothbrush and other personal items or a learning bag with exercise books and pencils - this will depend on the villages where the schools are located and their access to exercise books, pencils, soap etc.
The clothing that many tourists donate to Lao-Kids when they visit Luang Prabang is also taken to the villages by the Tuk-Tuk Library to be distributed to the neediest people.
Anyone can go to the to the library and purchase books for the book bags. They're not expensive - about US$2.50 for each book.
- library books to rural schools for the students to borrow,
- activities including singing, dancing, drawing, computing and science, and
- volunteer and teacher workshops.
The Tuk-Tuk Library visits schools in the villages surrounding Luang Prabang with books, learning activities and games. The Tuk-Tuk Library contains books for ages 3-18.
When the Tuk-Tuk Library goes to a village school, librarians and volunteers go with it and they take a full book-bag of 100 books, which is loaned to the students for a period of 2-6 weeks so they have a continual supply of new books to read.
The librarians spend the day with the children conducting fun reading games, teaching them how to respect books, teaching singing games etc. They also play games with the students which teach teamwork, coordination, group involvement and other skills - all conveyed through play. Hygiene promotion through songs, stories and drama will have long-term positive outcomes for students’ health. If time allows, writing skills will be worked on, with story and poetry competitions. By involving the local teacher in these activities as well, they will educate the local teacher on how to run these kinds of activities in their classrooms in the future.
The children will also be given either a health bag containing soap, toothbrush and other personal items or a learning bag with exercise books and pencils - this will depend on the villages where the schools are located and their access to exercise books, pencils, soap etc.
The clothing that many tourists donate to Lao-Kids when they visit Luang Prabang is also taken to the villages by the Tuk-Tuk Library to be distributed to the neediest people.
Anyone can go to the to the library and purchase books for the book bags. They're not expensive - about US$2.50 for each book.
