Jiangxi Team

Summary

Location: Jiangxi Province, Lichuan

Supporting Local Initiative on Creating Public Space.

Library Profile

Through our Dream Corps member Jiang Hongsheng, we got in touch with Tu Xiaohua (涂晓华), a Post-Doctoral Fellow who is now currently in Japan. After hearing about our successful result on the Library Project in Hunan Province, she convinced her family member in her hometown Lichuan, Jiangxi Province (黎川) to open a community library for local children and youths.

With the help from her brother who donated a store space and the start-up funding of 400 dollars from Dream Corps, the library was opened on October 20, 2004 in two connected rooms with a total space of 52 square meters and with a collection of 1412 books.

The library was named after Dream Corps –“Lichuan Dream Library” (黎川梦想图书室). The library is running with an average of 8 visitors a day, opening 32 hours a week. Dream Corps plans to send a team of volunteer to this site in the summer of 2005 to help the library to expand and gain more local support.

Library Profile [doc]

Team Photo Collection