Improving children's lives through education

Lilipad Friends,

We hope you’re all doing well and keeping healthy. 

We wanted to take a moment in this quarterly report to look back at what we’ve achieved in 2022!

• 10 libraries in 3 countries 
• Over 900 children reached 
• 931 number of books provided in 9 different  languages 

Expanding our reach in Berlin

In 2022, we scaled our activities which has allowed us to expand our reach in Berlin. We opened a total of 4 new libraries. We were better able to scale due to developing the concept of a ‘Satellite library.’ Unlike our core libraries, the Lilipad satellite library is one that is run more independently by our partner organisation and where Lilipad is in the installation and opening. Satellite libraries do not require a multi-year collaboration with the partner organisation. This new concept allowed Lilipad to support a higher number of institutions - and ultimately children - by providing reading books and creating library spaces that can bring value to the community. We also developed partnerships that allowed us to implement 8  workshops and 76 attendees (ages 3-14) in our Berlin library locations. 

Spotlight: our satellite libraries in Paris!

We are happy to say that our new satellite libraries in Paris are doing well! We opened libraries in two of the RésidSocial “hotels” and both are run as satellite libraries by our partner.  Once a week, a one-hour workshop is led by the residence delegate: a volunteer resident who gathers the children in the common room, reads to them, and proposes educational games. Families are already borrowing books from our shelves, which is great! Here are some numbers from Paris libraries:

• 58 children in total have access to these libraries

• 383 books donated

• 60 books borrowed

Testimonies from our Paris partners:

“First of all, the Lilipad libraries have allowed the children in our residences to have easy and free access to books of all kinds. Lilipad has thus facilitated access to reading for the children, and created interest in this activity. The first days of the installation of the library, the children were very curious, flipped through the pages of all the books, read the summaries, ... and took some of them to their room. Moreover, the reading workshops created around the library libraries are a motor for meeting, exchanging and sharing books. Whether it is for the sociability of the children, their ability to live together better or the educational interest that these workshops have, we can only note the impact that this partnership has. The reading workshops have frequently been followed by sessions of games, homework help, ... So thank you LIlipad!” - Paris partner organization

Crowdfunding Campaign

Thank you to everyone who has supported us! We kicked off the crowdfunding campaign on GlobalGiving on the 29th of November, and have raised almost €10,000! This will help us to keep making an impact at our current libraries, launch brand new projects and keep making an impact on children's lives with education. 

There are a few ways you can get involved:

• Reach out to fundraising@lilipadlibrary.org if you have ideas and time in order to join the fundraising efforts
• Reach out to: community@lilipadlibrary.org if you would like to volunteer at Lilipad
• Share our project on your social media channels once again
• Make a single donation on Lilipad’s GlobalGiving Project page
• Set-up a monthly donation on Lilipad’s GlobalGiving page
• Reach out to fundraising@lilipadlibrary.org if the company you work for or know of any that are willing to make a corporate/gift donation

We’re looking forward to sharing exciting news with our next quarterly update.

Yours,

The Lilipad Team

Links:

• Lilipad Linkedin page
• Lilipad website