The greatest gift is the passion for reading.

It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,

it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.

It is a moral illumination.

~ Elizabeth Hardwick ~

The Dram Projects firmly believes that children should be allowed to make their own reading choices and be offered a wide variety of reading material. Taking into consideration the high price of books, we hope to offer an alternative to public and school libraries, and reading in bookshops, especially to children in communities that do not have easy access to books.

Our “Reading Room” is a mobile library that brings books to children in refugee centres, shelters, orphanages and other similar communities. What we offer is the chance for children to discover, nurture and indulge their love for books and reading.

Comprising over two thousand books (and growing), our collection covers fiction and non-fiction titles, including picture books and reference material. Although the bulk of our books are for children and young adults, we also have a small but good selection of books for mature readers.

Besides our outreach library programme, The Dram Projects also organises regular reading activities for children and young adults, like storytelling sessions and book groups.

Alone with a book, a child creates images somewhere within the secret chamber of the soul that surpass anything else. Such images are crucial for human beings. The day children no longer manage to imagine these images will be the day when mankind becomes impoverished. Everything big that occurred in the world occurred in someone’s imagination. The state of tomorrow’s world relies, to a high degree, on the imaginative faculty of those currently learning to read. Therefore, children need books.

~ Astrid Lindgren ~