Bringing Information And Culture To Peoples Of The Amazon

It's a safe place to play and meet community members.

A young woman, Adriana Buenos, worked for ten years for the Colombian government in the area of human rights. But her heart remained where she grew up, in the Colombian Amazon. So she decided to take her skills and passions back to her home area and, in the process, created THE BIBLIOVAN.

Starting out as a mobile library, The BiblioVan has become much more. Not only does it bring books to the rural indigenous villages, but also other accoutrements of culture. Adriana mentioned some of what she hoped to accomplish; to "close the gap between the opportunities of the most vulnerable and the most privileged sectors of the population....It also promotes a positive engagement of the community around reading circles and movie clubs, giving people a constructive alternative for the use of their free time and reducing their exposure, particularly of kids and young people, to alcohol, drugs, and violence."



The whole BiblioVan experience comes in the form of a retrofitted police van that includes art materials, educational games, along with the previously mentioned books and movies. But most of all the van provides a safe place for village children and teens to learn, play, and talk. HABITAT SUR, which strives to preserve the culture and environment around the Amazon, has also been involved in this project from the beginning.

In addition, Habitat Sur has becomes partners with the Amazon Police Department in operating the van. For the police it has meant the development of better relationships with the local people and being able to utilize their knowledge of the culture to provide the education that helps to prevent crime.

More than one activity can take place when BiblioVan arrives.

Having The BiblioVan  has also enriched the amount of activities available to villagers. Among the activities now available are special workshops; reading circles; movie clubs; and classes on creative writing, illustration, recording audiobooks, recycled paper-making, multimedia stories utilizing photography and video, and memoir writing.

Police officers are active in providing activities for the children.

Thanks for information from this article from Pollination Project: https://thepollinationproject.org/grants-awarded/adriana-bueno-the-bibliovan/; and the above links.

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