The Priorka Library for Children from Kyiv won 2nd place at the IFLA Green Library Award 2024

The Priorka Library for Children from Kyiv won 2nd place at the IFLA Green Library Award 2024, a global competition that recognises libraries that promote environmental initiatives.

1. ECOLOGICAL SPACE "Green Library": in search of eco-heroes and a way out of the ecological crisis Library Country Charitable Foundation Lyusyena Shum & Hanna Kobets 08/10/2024 PRESENTED BY DATE Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children Kyiv, Ukraine

2. WE LAUNCHED THE GREEN LIBRARY PROJECT IN 2019 The main focus is to educate children to understand and be able to see the beauty of the environment, to protect and preserve nature.

3. has become a place for various meetings with writers, interesting people, activists, ecologists, just creative and extraordinary personalities. 03 THE LIBRARY Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

4. We tried to adhere to ecological standards, so all materials and things were made from natural or recycled materials. 01 02 03 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children 02 IN OUR ECOSPACE

5. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES We collaborate with artists to create exhibitions and installations made from recycled materials, showing the environmental damage caused by plastic 04 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

6. WE LOVE NATURE There is a wonderful park near the library with centuries-old oaks, we regularly visit it with our children. 05 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

7. We take care of the garden near the library and have bird feeders and an insect hotel. 10 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

8. ENVIRONMENTAL FLASH MOBS in the open space. Flash mob Botany on concrete. 06 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children collecting rubbish

9. creative meetings and activities take place in the library every day. For example, we paint eco-bags. VARIOUS MASTER CLASSES 07 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

10. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GAMES 09 We play various board games with the children on sorting garbage, for example, and other topics. Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

11. have an unusual harvest! we grew loofah, which replaces a kitchen sponge. WE ALSO 11 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

12. is an animal-friendly space. We love animals, so they also often visit the "Green Library". 13 01 02 OUR LIBRARY Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

13. very often feel like eco-heroes capable of protecting the world. And it is absolutely not difficult to do it, you just need to look around in a different way. 14 01 02 03 OUR READERS Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

14. WE HAVE our own ecological features, which we love to show to visitors - eco-paper, recycling products, reusable items instead of disposable ones, books made from recycled materials. 15 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

15. LIFE MAKES ITS OWN ADJUSTMENTS, and now, speaking of the environment, we have to pay attention to the environmental problems caused by Russia's war in Ukraine, which will be felt for many years to come. 16 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children

16. We are currently going through a difficult period because of the military operations. Our library has an unbreakability point with batteries and a generator, which supports Ukrainians during power outages after missile attacks. 12 Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children POINT OF UNBREAKABILITY

17. for the sake of the future of our children and the nation as a whole. And the formation of an environmental culture, a way of life that is friendly to the environment, is one of the keys to this future. 17 01 02 03 ALL THIS Kyiv Library at Priorka for Children