It looks ugly and very basic. What happened to all the money donated is what I wondering
This is only 30% of the money donated. 
I was expecting something more like this. Looks like the lacag went somewhere else *cough, corruption, cough*You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
Amazing! The theatre is also being finished, only thing we're missing is the museum
Just copying some interesting tidbits and not the whole article since much of it is filler explaining the history of Somaliland/Somalia (which I assume reer sspot already knows) to its uninformed readers.
http://www.citymetric.com/politics/...campaign-build-national-library-hargeisa-2979
Guys let's try to keep the discussion about the library and NOT about the current political situation in Somaliland and Somalia please.
"Since 2010, the Somali diaspora have been sending money, to pay for construction of the new building in the capital, Hargeisa."
"Rageeh Omar described the site of the new library in his fundraising video. It occupies 6,000m2 in the middle of Hargeisa, two minutes from the city’s main hospital, 10 from the presidential palace."
"And so, the new building will provide “the normal functions of public library, but also... additional services that are intentionally aimed at solving the unique education problems of a post conflict society”. It’ll provide books for a network of library trucks, providing “book services” to the regions outside Hargeisa, and a “book dispersal and exchange system”, to provide books for schools and other educational facilities. There’ll even be a “Camel Library Caravan that will specifically aim at accessing the nomadic pastoralists in remote areas”.
All this, it’s hoped, will raise literacy levels, in English as well as the local languages of Arabic and Somali, and so boost the economy too."
Now the scheme is moving to its second phase: books, computers and printers, plus landscaping the gardens. This will cost another $175,000. “We are also open to donations of books, furniture and technology,” Emli says. “Or even someone with technical expertise who can help up set-up the librarian system instead of a contemporary donation of a cash sum.” The Czech government, in fact, has helped with the latter: it’s not offered financial support, but has offered to spend four weeks training two librarians."
"On internet forums frequented by the Somali diaspora, a number of people have left comments about the best way to do this. One said he’d “donated all my old science and maths schoolbooks last year”. And then there’s this:
“At least 16 thousand landers get back to home every year, if everyone bring one book our children will have plenty of books to read. But we should make sure to not bring useless books such celebrity biography books or romantic novels. the kids should have plenty of science,maths and vocational books."
175k for that??
For that amount you can have a 3 story mansion
But another 175k for Books, computers and printers and gardening??
and other excertive ideological works (political, religious) although some may see this as censorship. like in Yemen and become the next war zone)
