The Human Library Organization: Borrowing People Instead of Books

  People with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, people who’ve suffered abuse or have intellectual disabilities, the elderly who’ve lived many different lives, or adolescents who’ve lived in a war zone. The human being is diverse, fascinating, and the best existing legacy of knowledge. This is precisely what human libraries house: genuine wisdom. Let’s face it, in this era of e-books where digital dominates just about everything, we’ve stopped going to libraries to read books. However, in some countries, this facility is offered in another wonderful way. We can go to a room where we can choose a ‘human book’ instead…