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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.
Stichting Hibiscus, a foundation based in The Netherlands, contacted us a while ago to express their interests in supporting Taman Bacaan Pelangi. After communicating via email and receiving information about this project, Stichting Hibiscus decided to hold a charity...
We have received 3 big boxes full of children books from Ibu Prima, a loving Mother who lives in Pondok Kelapa, Jakarta. The books are varies, from Japanese comics, famous children magazines (such as Bobo, Mombi), to children novels such as Goosebumps and the Famous...
On one fine day, there was a mail in my inbox: “Dear Nila, I read about Rainbow Reading Gardens that you established and I want to donate my kids’ books as they’re all grown up now” “I got info about Rainbow Reading Gardens from ‘Google’. At that time I was looking...
Those are the words from Elang and Scarlett, a little boy and a little girl who live in Seattle, USA. They donated 30 children books, all were in Indonesian language, for Taman Bacaan Pelangi (Rainbow Reading Gardens). These two mixed blood kids, raised in the USA,...
One day, Yacht Aid Global, a charitable organization that utilizes the luxury yacht fleet to help communities in need, contacted us saying that they wanted to support our project in Flores. Wow, of course we're very thrilled! They knew that Taman Bacaan Pelangi were...
Femina, a leading women magazine in Indonesia, published an article titled, “A story about Book Worms “Virus”". This article basically discusses about people who have a concern about education and take an initiative to help the communities by setting up...
The US Embassy expressed their support to our reading gardens by donating 99 books, written in Indonesian language. They sent us the package all the way from their office in Jakarta to our coordinator’s house in Labuan Bajo, Flores! The 99 books consisted of novels...
Nara Village is a tiny village located in West Flores. From Labuan Bajo, one needs to take a car/motorbike and drive for about 2 hours, continued by walking for another half hour, passing a dirt and rocky path. My friend Andreas from Germany still joined us on this...
It was such a beautiful day… the sky was so blue and the sea looked so calm. We departed from Labuan Bajo to Kukusan Island by a small fisherman boat. It took us only 30 minutes to get to this small island.. what an easy ride, especially with such a stunning view all...
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