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Trash to treasure: Garbage workers created a 40,000-book library from books people threw away
What began as a routine day of collecting rubbish in the streets of Ankara slowly turned into one of Turkey’s most inspiring community projects. Sanitation workers in the city’s Cankaya district ...
In Ankara, a group of sanitation workers turned one city’s waste into a quiet act of cultural repair. What began during routine garbage collection in the Cankaya district slowly became one of Turkey’s ...
The head of the European Union (EU) delegation to Turkey on Wednesday handed over 20 boxes of books to a special library in the capital, established with books found in garbage bins. In a visit to ...
Ankara has plenty of surprises, and a public library built out of books rescued from trash bins might be one of the city's most delightful twists. The project began when sanitation workers kept ...
You know that old expression, "One man's trash is another man's treasure?" Garbage collectors in Turkey's capital gave the phrase a whole new meaning when they founded a public library composed of ...
First lady Kim Hea Kyung and Turkish first lady, Emine Erdogan, have visited Turkey's largest library in Ankara and shared their thoughts about cultural cooperation and people-to-people exchanges, ...
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