You'll NEVER believe what happens in this van! - Echo Mobile Library

ECHO is a library on wheels that visits refugee camps in Greece.
There are currently 115,000 refugees in Greece, many trapped in an asylum system that puts lives into a state of paralyzing insecurity and deep boredom. Our library travels 250km to 11 locations each week.

On our shelves you can travel to nineteenth century North America through a Turkish copy of Little Women, to postcolonial Sudan in Arabic or to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Farsi

Three hundred people use the library each week. Many borrow books, switching in finished copies for fresh ones for the week ahead. Others use our language learning resources to get a grip on basic Greek, English or German. Some chat to members of the team, swapping languages, life skills, and stories.

Our children’s sessions provide a basic educational space - and an injection of high-energy fun.But we’ve got a problem - our faithful old library van is on the edge of collapse. It is twenty years old and has seen more than 200,000km on the road. Breakdowns have cost us three days of library sessions in two months - and we’ve been told that the next will probably be its last.

You can help. We have found the perfect replacement van - a second-hand 2013 Ford Transit, with Euro 5 emissions standard. This van will be able to drive safely and legally everywhere we need to go. We need £8000 to complete the purchase and the conversion. With your help we can get our library back on the road.

All donations, no matter how small, help us get closer.

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