How You Can Help

Empower us to Empower others!

There are a number of ways in which you, your business, school, group or family can help Livro Aberto to achieve success in opening books and doors for children and adults in Mozambique.

Here are a few suggestions...

Become a member of the Livro Aberto children’s library and literacy centre:

Click here for more information on library memberships

Sign up for any of the exciting and educational range of Livro Aberto children’s literacy workshops, commencing December 2011

Click here for more information on current workshops available

Raise money for resources!

We need support to develop and renew our library and workshop resources to ensure that children always receive the highest quality literacy experiences. Fundraising activities can support the purchase of new books, theatre workshop costumes, arts and crafts materials and multi-media resources for our library.

Click here for more information on how you can raise money for Livro Aberto

Share your time and skills...

We are currently providing literacy workshops and open reading times within Costs do Sol, KaTembe and Zona Museu, if you have time, a love of books, children and an understanding of Portuguese, we would welcome your help at our sessions!

We are also looking for people to support our growth, with specific skills in web design, book publishing, literacy curriculum design and fundraising. If you can help please contact us!

Share your recyclables...

We make books and literacy materials out of your recyclables. Please share your...

Shipping materials (wooden shipping crates, packing paper, thin cardboard boxes, Styrofoam beans...)

Child and adult magazines / books

Useable leftover supplies (paint, crayons, glue, chalk, pens, pencils, art supplies, etc.) Recycled paper (printed on one side only)

Thin cardboard boxes

Juice and milk box caps

Educational games

Small toys and/or pieces and parts of toys (things found at the bottom of the toy box... we use them to make letter sound games)

Drop off at our biblioteca, or we can collect from you, just contact us!