The village library that started in the street: How one man does his part for education in Romania

In a village in southern Romania, one man has set up a library inside his home for the children in his native commune. He also helps them with the school homework and, more recently, has also started delivering math lessons online. Now he is working on setting up a cultural center, part of his vision for an educational project aimed at helping kids fare better in school and get the chance at a better start in life.

This September, Humanitas publishing house announced the start of a mobile library project. Set up inside a van, the library targeted localities in the country left without a bookshop. The first stop was in the commune of Scrioaștea, in Teleorman county, to offer book donations to what it called "perhaps the most ambitious educational project in Romania." The project was started by Relu Voicu, a screenwriter who moved back to Scrioaștea after many years spent in Bucharest.