Build School Library & Storeroom for 650 Students

The Ugandan school year begins today, February 3, 2020. This will be the first full year of use for our library that was completed and put into service in mid-July 2019. Over 600 students and 18 teachers will be using the library this year!  Most of the teachers and older students use the library daily for their studies.

I'll be traveling to Uganda again with two U.S. volunteers in a couple of weeks. And we'll be bringing over 400 donated U.S. reading and picture books with us. 

But there are two things we can't bring from the U.S. that are some of the most important things our library should have:

• Ugandan textbooks for students to use and study from outside of class time
• Ugandan social studies and history books and maps as well as other cultural books

Both of these items are very important for Uganda libraries. Books are in short supply in Uganda and most students have no books of their own. Students share a very limited number of books in class. They can only check out books from the library for homework purposes. 

As we mentioned in our last report, we have most of the 6th grade textbooks needed but very little textbooks for other classes. We are hoping to raise the needed money to purchase these textbooks through this GlobalGiving project. 

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support so far in helping make the library a reality, and for beginning this process of acquiring more textbooks.  Please reach out to your friends and family if you know teachers, librarians, book lovers and others who would be willing to help with this awesome textbook purchasing project. It will be a wonderful conclusion to our library project to make sure it is as effective and well utilized as possible.

Please share and help us achieve our goal to fill the empty library shelves. Help our Uganda students have the learning materials they need to excel and achieve their dreams!

Links:

• Visit our web site and learn more
• See our work in photos