{"id":30,"date":"2012-03-28T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=30"},"modified":"2012-03-28T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T10:17:15","slug":"30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2012\/03\/28\/30\/","title":{"rendered":"New report: How public libraries contribute towards reaching the Millenium Development Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondaccess.net\/\">Beyond Access initiative<\/a> has just published a new report showing how libraries are helping to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondaccesscampaign.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Beyond-Access-Libraries-MDGs-Small.pdf\"><strong>Libraries powering development: How public libraries contribute towards reaching the Millenium Development Goals<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring stories from about twenty different libraries around the world, the report emphasizes the role that libraries are taking in powering development.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<p>* In Guatemala, the Chiche Community Library offers an <strong>early childhood literacy and nutrition class<\/strong> to teach new parents child care and nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>* In Zambia, open access Lubuto public libraries reach large numbers of the country&#8217;s <strong>street children, orphans and other vulnerable children<\/strong> who are largely not enrolled in school.<\/p>\n<p>* In Kenya, the Kenya National Library Service is helping to prevent deaths during pregnancy, birth or unsafe abortions by <strong>providing healthcare providers with knowledge <\/strong>on how to correctly apply simple, inexpensive interventions.<\/p>\n<p>* In Botswana, the Ramotswa Public Library in southeastern Botswana is playing an active role in <strong>reducing the impact HIV\/AIDS has in the community<\/strong> by partnering with the District HIV\/AIDS committee on a &#8220;Lifeline Project&#8221; to help educate young people, ages 14-30, about important health issues.<\/p>\n<p>* In Jamaica, the Jamaica Library Service introduced <strong>public access computers<\/strong> in over 100 public libraries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beyond Access initiative has just published a new report showing how libraries are helping to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Libraries powering development: How public libraries contribute towards reaching the Millenium Development Goals Featuring stories from about twenty different libraries around the world, the report emphasizes the role that libraries are taking in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}