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We are a non-profit organisation working to establish children’s libraries
in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia since 2009.
Libraries established
Books delivered
Children served
Teachers trained
Check out all the children’s libraries that Taman Bacaan Pelangi [Rainbow Reading Gardens] has stablished in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia.
We establish child-friendly libraries in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia. We work together with the local schools and transform their library into a child friendly learning environment that will foster the love of reading in each of the student.
We provide a series of capacity building workshops for the local teachers that enable them to have the skills and knowledge needed in nurturing the habit of reading on their students and promoting literacy in their village.
In each of our library, reading activities are regularly conducted. Each class has reading activities weekly at the library, lead by the classroom’s teacher. Through reading activities, children will slowly grow the love of reading.
Library management workshop on 'Creating an Ideal Library' has been conducted in Labuan bajo, Flores on September 2—5 2015 by Rainbow Reading Gardens team (jessy & monik). The 24 participants of school pricipals, teachers and librarians from 8 selected...
What will happen if most children in Indonesia were illiterate? Two days ago, I visited our library in Komodo Island, Flores. I brought two boxes of books to add to the collection at the library. As usual, the children were very excited. Their eyes were...
The children at the local Catholic Elementary School at Melo, Flores were getting their new collection of books. I brought two boxes full of books from Jakarta, which we collected from various donations from the Rainbow Reading Gardens’ friends in Jakarta and a new...
the Rainbow Reading Gardens is happy to say that we are well on our way to prepare our eight new libraries in Manggarai Barat district, East Nusa Tenggara province, in collaboration with the US-based NGO Room-to-Read. The eight new libraries will adopt the proven...
Through the “Book a Smile” program, Citibank Indonesia has recently donated 1000 children books to the Rainbow Reading Gardens during its “Global Community Day”. Not only that. Upon receiving the books from the Citibankers, Citi volunteers and their families helped us...
On June 5th – 7th the not-for-profit organisation Jakarta Players held a theatre play titled “Circle Mirror Transformation”. The event was special for both Jakarta Players and Rainbow Reading Gardens. The sole purpose of the three-day perfomance was to raise funds for...
Here I am with a new story out of one of our libraries. This one is from Paka, a small village two hours from the next bigger city Ruteng. It is pretty hard to reach if you compare it with Melo or Roe, which one can reach within an hour from Labuan Bajo, but Paka is...
Hey Folks, I’m happy you find the way to this diary blog again. Maybe you know me already. But nevertheless my name is Paul and I was a fulltime volunteer for TBP for almost one year now. Unfortunately this is my last entry because I just left Indonesia and flew back...
The Unlikely Librarian In an Indonesian village where afternoons are spent napping, one fisherman is losing sleep so kids can read. I can't imagine my childhood without books. Because of books, I could travel the world in one afternoon, every...
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