BookTruck: report of a case of social entrepreneurship through a reading project in communities of social vulnerability

Abstract

This article addresses the Social Librarianship, the core of the FIEB 2018, which highlighted the project of the Itinerant Library, BookTruck, emphasizing social entrepreneurship. A company focused on the social cultural transformer (VR Projects), a tailor-made van placed in the form of a library, a librarian, 22 cities visited throughout three regions of the country and, finally, communities in total social vulnerability. In this way BookTruck acted during the year 2018, traveling more than 19 thousand km by the Brazilian roads, taking the book and the reading to those who, in the 21st century, do not even have access to the information. We present in this report, a synthesis of what was this pilot project in Brazil, narrated in the form of a lecture at FIEB 2018, in Campo Grande (MS). The main mission of BookTruck is to live up to the UN's "Agenda 2030" regarding its premise of "leaving no one behind" and we do not let it. Each goal set by the action has been met, traversing peripheral neighborhoods, localities of violence and crime, rural schools, asylums and individuals who serve sentences within the penal system. Yes the prisoners were also part of the literary wheels and mediations of reading, precisely because we could not leave anyone behind. This is how Brazil becomes, undertaking and investing in the culture of our people.