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More programs in Malawi:
Paper Making Educational Trust (PAMET)
Overview:
The National Library Service (NLS) is responsible for ensuring that residents in rural and urban areas have access to reading material. This includes basic and professional education, maintenance of literacy and recreational reading. Emphasis is on services to school children and newly literate adults, while maintaining general public library services. The NLS has distributed CODE's North American donated books in Malawi since the 1970s. The NLS began purchasing local and regional books and publishing children's and literacy reading materials in 1998.
NLS receives book donations from the French Cultural Centre (France), the British Council of Malawi, Longman (Malawi), Dzuka Publishing Company (Malawi), Book Aid International (UK), the World Bank, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). NLS acts as the secretariat for the Malawi Book Development Council (MBDC), and through this Council it works with different actors of the book chain, including the Book Publishers Association of Malawi, the Malawi Library Association, the Malawi Writers' Union, the Copyright Society of Malawi, the Ministry of Education - Science & Technology, the Malawi National Commission for UNESCO, and local and foreign libraries.
CODE-Funded Program:
The program supports libraries, mainly through the provision of books and training of teacher librarians.
Activities:
National Librarian
NLS
P.O. Box 30314
Lilongwe 3, Malawi
Tel: (265) 1-773-700
Email: nls@malawi.net
