The gasoline supplied by the oil company Total, present in Cambodia since 1993, allows 8 mobile libraries to reach remote villages, and give them the taste for reading to the villagers. For them, reading is a functional activity. In Cambodia, it is considered that 'reading is working', and reading for his own pleasure is not yet recognized nor facilitated.
The mobile libraries make a change. Children come, especially young people, but also parents, who were quite rare before.
The NGO SIPAR launched the mobile libraries in 2000 in the poor suburbs of Phnom Penh as part of its program "Reading for All".Buses operate on a hundred sites 6 days out of 7, giving access to reading to more of 12,000 children and adolescents each month.
SIPAR, who "educate is to build the future," is looking for new donors and partners : in a country where there is no public libraries, mobile libraries are essential to provide information and knowledge to people, especially those living in remote rural areas,
2012.07.31 Asie Info - des-bibliobus-pour-lutter-contre-lillettrisme