District 6020 Literacy

HINESVILLE

Liberty Little Libraries Project 

The Hinesville Rotary Club had a service day to install five Free Little Libraries in Liberty County on May 4, 2021. The five locations are:

> Regency Place – to the right of the US Postal mailbox (accessible upon entering the first entrance to the complex) 100 Regency Place

> Cedar Walk at Norwood and Gassaway Streets – next to the US Postal mailbox, in front of 401 Norwood Street, near  tan color multiple mailbox

> Cedar Walk at Rebecca Street – next to the US Postal mailbox, in front of 213 Rebecca Street, near a tan color multiple mailbox (Cedar Walk Apartments II)

> Liberty County YMCA, 201 Mary Lou Drive Hinesville, Georgia 31313, over by the Child Care entrance on the side, near a tree trunk, close to the parking lot

> In Bryant Commons, behind the metal building, on the opposite side of the tree, next to the Geocaching post (it looks like a little birdhouse) at 438 W. Oglethorpe Highway, Hinesville, GA 31

The libraries were purchased through freelittlelibrary.org. By buying the supplies from Free Little Library, each local library will be registered and allow anyone to see where our libraries are located. Between January 1, 2021, and February 20, 2021, the club Rotarians built the libraries. Once the libraries were constructed, the club provided 25 books in each library for free access to reading for families in our community. 

After each weekly club meeting, a Rotarian will place a new book in a library that has been dedicated to our weekly speaker as a community leader to promote literacy. Liberty County as a whole will benefit from this project. It will increase the opportunity for families to have access to reading materials. By giving access to more books, we will inspire a love of reading, build a stronger Liberty County, and spark creativity. 21 Rotarians participated in the project by providing books for the libraries and then building and placing the libraries in the ground at each location.