{"id":45859,"date":"2024-02-29T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/?p=45859"},"modified":"2024-02-29T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:22:08","slug":"education-eramet-and-bibliotheque-sans-frontieres-launch-lire-pour-lavenir-in-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/en\/news\/education-eramet-and-bibliotheque-sans-frontieres-launch-lire-pour-lavenir-in-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Education: Eramet and Biblioth\u00e8que Sans Fronti\u00e8res launch “Lire pour l’avenir” in Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 28, Eramet announced the launch of “Lire pour l’avenir” (Read for the future), an educational project in Gabon carried out in partnership with the French association Biblioth\u00e8ques Sans Fronti\u00e8res (Libraries Without Borders) and the Gabonese Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n

Thanks to this initiative, 6,500 students from six high schools located around the Transgabonese railroad line, operated by Setrag, will benefit from new physical and digital libraries. Each high school will receive 250 books and several thousand dematerialized educational contents, accessible offline. The project also includes the distribution of 4,000 memory cards for future Baccalaur\u00e9at candidates, ready to be inserted into smartphones to access content and facilitate studying, even without an Internet connection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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This new initiative will provide high school students with varied and attractive content to support their taste for reading and encourage their academic success. I am deeply committed to education and personal development through knowledge. On behalf of Eramet, I am delighted to contribute to helping the younger generations build their future and have the same chances of success in exams.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Virginie de Chassey
\n<\/strong>Director of Sustainable Development
\nand Corporate Engagement
\nof the Eramet group<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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From left to right: Edouard Delbend\u00e9, Vice-President of Biblioth\u00e8ques Sans Fronti\u00e8res; Virginie de Chassey, Director of Sustainable Development and Corporate Engagement at Eramet; Laurent Mouity Mabika, General Secretary of the Ministry of Education, representing the Minister.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

To help educational staff get to grips with these new tools, training courses have also been organized, as C\u00e9dric Irakoze, Regional Education Manager for Central and West Africa at Biblioth\u00e8ques Sans Fronti\u00e8res, explains: \u201cBiblioth\u00e8ques Sans Fronti\u00e8res’ support for teachers is essential, which is why I have myself carried out several missions to raise awareness of how to manage the educational content we make available to pupils. The books themselves have been selected by Gabon’s National Pedagogical Institute to reflect the specific characteristics of the country and its wider region, while leaving room for knowledge of global issues.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

This project is part of the “Eramet Beyond for Contributive Impacts” program financed by Eramet in the countries where the Group operates. Complementing the CSR actions of Eramet subsidiaries, “Eramet Beyond” aims to contribute to projects that generate economic activities independent of those directly linked to Eramet sites, to empower local populations and foster their socio-economic development. “Eramet Beyond” is also one of the objectives of the Group’s new “Act for Positive Mining” CSR roadmap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Discover other “Eramet Beyond” projects<\/strong><\/p>\n