BiblioWorks has seven rural libraries located between 30 and 150 kilometers outside of the city of Sucre. If you happen to find yourself in Bolivia or are planning a trip there, we can always use volunteers to help in our office in Sucre or in the rural communities where we work.
These are some of the great volunteer opportunities we can offer you.
- Work in a library of your choice (most in need of help are Morado K’asa, Tarabuco, Sopachuy).
- Work in the Sucre office making inventories of books or looking for places to donate/sell books.
- Promoting BiblioWorks around the city of Sucre and more widely across Bolivia.
- Organizing events to sell books, promote reading habits or any creative activity that promotes our goals and objectives.
- Looking for more local funding.
- Helping to strengthen library committees; planning and organizing community events to promote the libraries.
- Working one-on-one with teachers to help them make greater use of the libraries.
- Traveling around Chuquisaca making contacts in municipal governments and district educational offices with a view to opening new libraries.
- Creating new games, activities to promote reading, and materials to be used in training settings
- Planning for ensuring the sustainability of libraries.
- Organizing a cultural activity among all of the libraries to be held in the city of Sucre or in one of the libraries.
- Working on the BiblioWorks website.
- Painting murals in the libraries (eg world maps, murals).
- Helping to recruit other volunteers to work in the libraries.
- Creating reading clubs, eco clubs, music clubs, English clubs or any other appropriate club, both in the city of Sucre and in the libraries.
To learn more about Bolivia and volunteering with BiblioWorks please view our volunteer manual.
If you are interested in these opportunities or would like more information, please contact Matt Lynn in Sucre, Bolivia:
Volunteer, Chris Lauer, reading to kids in the Presto library
Email: mlynn@biblioworks.org
Phone: (591) 703-10330