In this episode of Pacific Pulse, Tania Nugent looks at a Papua New Guinea charity, Buk Bilong Pikinini, which runs free, community owned libraries to bring books to some of Port Moresby's neediest children, in settlement areas, in hospital and for disabled children. The libraries give poorer families access to books to encourage children to read and improve literacy rates in a country where almost half the population over the age of 15 can't read and write, and many families are too poor to send their children to school. The charity is supported by Community Development Minister, Dame Carol Kidu, who says the Australian model of libraries where books are loaned out doesn't work in a country where most homes have no books. Governor General and author, Sir Paulius Matane, says Papua New Guinea is a nation of orators, people who prefer sitting around and talking to reading, but it's time his people learned to read, not just for pleasure, but for the benefit of the country.