Nepal is emerging from a time of civil war, the end of which has been recently negotiated by the Nepali Government and the Maoist insurgents. With this new peace, communities can now feel confident to develop services. The Tikapur Library is a community initiative established in 2004 in conjunction with READ Nepal, which assisted with the project plan for a sustainable library project. The Library, with a small collection, currently runs from a room provided by the District Development Committee. The Library has an 11-member committee representing a cross section of the community and an advisory committee represented by local government officials. The purpose of the project is to provide library related resources and services to a larger project that has in it a money-generating component that will provide self sustainability to the library.. ALF is very interested in supporting a library project that has this sustainability component built in.
Nepal Library Foundation of Vancouver and READ Nepal – Tikapur Community Library