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Monday, August 27, 2012

São Paulo bicycle library brings books to the city's homeless (Brazil)

If good ideas transcend boundaries, this one does it by bicycle. That is, by Bicicloteca, a bicycle that carries a small library through the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The project is a creative and dynamic way to encourage reading, especially among people who live on the streets, because libraries typically require identification and proof of residence to loan books; documents which homeless people don’t have. The Bicicloteca initiative has emerged from this very need, gaining support from São Paulo residents, media and businesses. As of August 2012, it has been distributing books and encouraging reading for a year

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