Laundry, libraries, and literacy: Why one group is putting books
in Laundromats
Michigan Radio: 11.16.2017
by Stateside Staff LISTEN
Pretend
it’s Saturday.
You
and the kids are running errands, including a several-hour stop at the
laundromat. They are bored, you are bored.... What if you could use that washer
time for something like education? What if your laundromat had the services of
a library?
Well,
over the summer, this started happening in Detroit.
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Allister
Chang is executive director of an organization called Libraries Without Borders, which is partnering with area laundromats and other
organizations to create an innovative program called Wash and Learn. He
joined Stateside to discuss the idea.
Chang
described the mission of the nonprofit as “to expand access to information.”
“What’s
been exciting about this is that we’ve found a space where you’re almost forced
to be idle, and, most importantly, we’re reaching a lot of folks who don’t have
the resources or might not have the resources for a working washing or drying
machine,” Chang said. LISTEN
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