International children library. Giving a better chance to multicultural children
I would like to open an international bibliotheek for children. We as expats have no other choices than to buy books in our mother tongue languages to ensure our kids have access and learn our mother tongue languages. The Centraal bibliotheek is not enough and has 1 section with very limited languages and books. I would collect 2nd hands books from parents in every languages. Display them per languages in a local and make it free for children to borrow 3 books for 4 weeks. Hopefully we would quickly have a great collection on the languages that expats/foreigners in Rotterdam speak and it could be an additional asset to the dutch speakers that want to learn another languages(or their children 2nd languages). It would be a place to connect parents of mutlicultural background, organize workshops and welcome people no matter their languages. Parents could connect base on the 2nd languages their children speak. It would be environmentally friendly so that we do not have to buy books from Amazon for our children but borrow them in a consistent manner. It would give children raised multilingual in Rotterdam a place to gather and see others like them.