Millions of children in Eastern Indonesia do not have access to quality books

 

Let's change that

Taman Bacaan Pelangi

(Rainbow Reading Gardens)

We are a non-profit organisation working to establish children’s libraries
in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia since 2009.

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Our Impact

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207

Libraries established

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287.962+

Books delivered

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42,189+

Children served

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5,892+

Teachers trained

Our Libraries

Check out all the children’s libraries that Taman Bacaan Pelangi [Rainbow Reading Gardens] has stablished in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia.

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Our Programs

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Establish Children Libraries

We establish child-friendly libraries in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia. We work together with the local schools and transform their library into a child friendly learning environment that will foster the love of reading in each of the student.

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Capacity Building Workshops

We provide a series of capacity building workshops for the local teachers that enable them to have the skills and knowledge needed in nurturing the habit of reading on their students and promoting literacy in their village.

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Basic Literacy Course

In each of our library, reading activities are regularly conducted. Each class has reading activities weekly at the library, lead by the classroom’s teacher. Through reading activities, children will slowly grow the love of reading.

As Retirement Looms, Mama Gina’s Love for Literacy Continues to Inspire

Regina Agho, commonly known as Mama Gina, is the most senior teacher at SDK Lena and will retire in December 2025. Despite her upcoming retirement, Mama Gina remains enthusiastic about contributing to improving literacy among the children at SDK Lena. In 2023, Mama...

Students Flock to the Library During School Break

SDN Mauwaru is a school partner of Taman Bacaan Pelangi starting from 2023. It is located in Lokalaba Village, Mauponggo District, Nagekeo Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. The reading habits of SDN Mauwaru students have already developed. They are accustomed to borrowing...

From the Library to the Winner’s Stage: Raina’s Journey in a Short Story Writing Competition

"The library has become the source of inspiration for Raina to enrich her ideas and vocabulary through the children's storybooks available there, enabling her to craft beautiful and engaging stories for her future readers (in this case, the judges). Raina often visits...

Creating an Ideal Library

Library management workshop on 'Creating an Ideal Library' has been conducted in Labuan bajo, Flores on September 2—5 2015 by Rainbow Reading Gardens team (jessy & monik).   The 24 participants of school pricipals, teachers and librarians from 8 selected...

Freedom from Illiteracy

What will happen if most children in Indonesia were illiterate?   Two days ago, I visited our library in Komodo Island, Flores. I brought two boxes of books to add to the collection at the library. As usual, the children were very excited. Their eyes were...

Happy Faces of Children at the Library in Melo

The children at the local Catholic Elementary School at Melo, Flores were getting their new collection of books. I brought two boxes full of books from Jakarta, which we collected from various donations from the Rainbow Reading Gardens’ friends in Jakarta and a new...

12,000 Children Storybook have been Delivered to Flores

the Rainbow Reading Gardens is happy to say that we are well on our way to prepare our eight new libraries in Manggarai Barat district, East Nusa Tenggara province, in collaboration with the US-based NGO Room-to-Read. The eight new libraries will adopt the proven...

Citibank Donates 1000 Books to the Library

Through the “Book a Smile” program, Citibank Indonesia has recently donated 1000 children books to the Rainbow Reading Gardens during its “Global Community Day”. Not only that. Upon receiving the books from the Citibankers, Citi volunteers and their families helped us...

Donation from the Jakarta Players

On June 5th – 7th the not-for-profit organisation Jakarta Players held a theatre play titled “Circle Mirror Transformation”. The event was special for both Jakarta Players and Rainbow Reading Gardens. The sole purpose of the three-day perfomance was to raise funds for...

60 at once!

Here I am with a new story out of one of our libraries. This one is from Paka, a small village two hours from the next bigger city Ruteng. It is pretty hard to reach if you compare it with Melo or Roe, which one can reach within an hour from Labuan Bajo, but Paka is...

My Last Diary

Hey Folks, I’m happy you find the way to this diary blog again. Maybe you know me already. But nevertheless my name is Paul and I was a fulltime volunteer for TBP for almost one year now. Unfortunately this is my last entry because I just left Indonesia and flew back...

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In the News

NET. Lentera Indonesia (August 2014)
TV One - Aku Bangga (May 2015)
Trans7 - She Can! (May 2015)
DAAI TV - Mutiara Indonesia (April 2016)