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For more than 60 residents of Carpinis, Romania, a recent visit to the library was far from typical. Instead of checking out books or looking for information on the Internet, a doctor and a...
Every year, 98,000 Romanians are diagnosed with cancer, but there is little awareness of the needs of cancer patients in many communities. Approximately 3100 residents of Tulcea and Constanta...
Building a library from scratch requires an enormous amount of creativity and hard work. In Vulcana Pandele, a village in Romania, the library was crammed into a tiny space with little room for...
“A dead end is the best incentive to look for new avenues of possibility,” says Olha Pomyluyko, the head of the local council in Bar Rayon in Ukraine and a graduate of a project...
One of the core principles of librarianship is to ensure access to information for everyone – including those who can’t come to the library. In Ukraine, people with disabilities are...
Posted on November 14, 2011 - in Center for Collaborative Technology, Civil Society Strengthening, Conflict Resolution, Education, Gender, Media Development, Youth
Our work today reaches and helps more people than ever before in our history. These stories highlight just a handful of the 300,000 people IREX has helped this year.
This year, 400 public libraries in Romania helped 17,000 farmers successfully receive farm subsidies of over $54,000 per library.
Posted on August 17, 2011 - Matej Novak in Center for Collaborative Technology, Civil Society Strengthening
I recently had the opportunity to contribute to the Impatient Optimists blog...
Posted on July 20, 2011 - Paul-Andre Baran in Center for Collaborative Technology, Civil Society Strengthening
A week prior to the Romania Digital Agenda conference, the Biblionet training manager feverishly called to tell me that the Vice President of the European Commission, Ms. Neelie Kroes, was going...
Where there were once ales and liver sausages, there are now books, computers and a well-trained librarian waiting to give patrons a taste of the World Wide Web. Romanians benefit in many ways...
