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Louise
Dick
GLIG
Tsunami Working Party
Biography
- Louise is a Learning Support Librarian with Wesminster Libraries,
and has previously held several positions in FE colleges. After
witnessing the tsunami coverage over Christmas 2004, and having
just turned 30,
Louise decided to leave her permanent job and look for a volunteering
opportunity. During a temporary contract at UK Trade and Investment
she came to learn of the GLIG project in Sri Lanka and a partnership
was born.
Abstract
- Recovering from disasters - Sri Lanka
GLIG is
involved with a twinning project with Hikkaduwa Library, a library
badly damaged by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Members of the
Working Party will discuss how the project started; progress and
current situation. Edwina Smart will then speak about her
visits to Sri Lanka and how libraries are a vehicle for change.
Through a series of then workshops with reconstructed school libraries
the children involved have made great progress.
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