In the coffee shop Nightingales ran a 3 month season of reading with children. The children and the parents of the town loved the sessions. The children would hear stories, read stories and talk about the stories that they had read. Due to the success of these sessions, Nightingales decided to turn one of the rooms into a children’s library. A place where children, parents and schools can come and enjoy reading. A place where reading can be cool and fun.  The library is aimed for children between the age of 0-11 years old.

For Cernavoda, where many young people who drop out of school due to illiteracy, one of the aims of the library is to help combat this. The local schools have started using the facility, bringing reading groups and who get a chance to read books which are fun and attractive to look at. The students also get to use the playground in the main hall, which is a fun 3 storey climbing centre and trampoline. The library supports the schools in their aim to get all children literate by the time they are 11 years old. This helps to reduce the number of pupils of leave school between classes 5 and 8.

This library has only been possible due to the generosity of Dauntsey’s School, the Duggins family and also the foundation Good Bureau from Bucharest. If you would like to get involved in supporting this project then we are looking for people to sponsor their favourite book so that we are able to have it in Romanian in the library.