The Volta Regional Library, a wing of the Ghana Library Authority, provides public library service to the citizenry, from the preschool child to the retired worker. It also attempts to satisfy the educational, informational and recreational needs of citizens engaged in all kinds of vocation. This it does through the static libraries in nine districts and the mobile library service in some communities in three districts, including the Ho Municipality.

In the Ho Municipality, with the support of Electronic Information For Libraries (EIFL), the mobile library van carries the five laptops it provided to the project, powered by the solar unit installed on the van, to teach ICT lessons to students in five selected communities. This is to enable them pass their ICT exams and be able to look for and retrieve information to develop themselves. The students are also supposed to look for information on good farming practices and pass this on to their parents to enable them increase incomes and cut down on poverty levels. The project is on the theme “Mobile Library Internet Service for Development” (MLIS4D).

This service is running on the back of the traditional mobile library service which is being supported by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC). GIFEC added five more desktop computers to support the project. TechAide (which provides citizen- centric technology solutions) is the technical consultant on the project. Tree of Life International, an NGO, is monitoring the project.
There is an e-library (e-granary) on the van to offer the children the opportunity to do further research when they are not on the internet. The five laptop computers also have lessons on ICT, based on the Ghana Education Service syllabus, installed on them in addition to educational games on English language, Mathematics and Integrated Science.

The project period which ended March 2013 was extended to July 2013 to enable the children to complete the phase that will help them search for and retrieve information on crops and pass this on to their parents. The project has trained 215 children in the use of computers hands-on. One hundred and nineteen of them can go on the internet.

The project continues to go the communities to enable the children to practice and do more research. The library hopes to get all school children in the target communities involved and also replicate the project in other equally deprived communities
Major constraints faced by the project include inadequate laptops and lack of internet connectivity in some communities.