Svaneti

Winter in Ushguli lasts almost six months. When the first heavy snow comes and the passes close, the settlement is all but cut off from the outside world. The people who live here carry on at an entirely different rhythm.

There is only one public school in the village, where around twenty children study. Through the long, cold winter, getting pupils to school is one of the main challenges.

We believe that filling their library with books will make lessons more varied and more interesting. Fiction — and new translations and editions especially — is hard for these children to come by, so book donors are the people who create that opportunity.

When the roads close, the local school becomes the one bright point connecting pupils to the outside world and to each other. The book you give may become the best company there is through the long winter nights.