Build School Library & Storeroom for 650 Students

With Uganda's schools still closed due to the government's shutdown orders during covid, our library has proved to be a huge benefit to the community. Fortunately, the school's librarian lives nearby and can open the library when needed if a student needs to borrow or return a textbook.

The library also serves as a central meeting place when teachers come to the school monthly. The photo shows a brief meeting of teachers in the library. Classrooms in the school remain closed.

The library still needs student textbooks. Currently, students remain at home, but with study materials provided to them by the district. They are supposed to be studying on their own. If the library had more textbooks, more students would be able to access them for use with their home study materials from the district.

We thank you so much for the funds donated to date so that we could construct the library and provide for technology equipment storage. And we are very thankful for the hundreds of books donated from the U.S. which volunteers brought with them this past year!

If we can upgrade our fairly meager collection of Uganda textbooks, that would help us meet the final goal of this project. We aim  to help our many students access needed educational materials so they can be competitive with more developed areas of the country, and be successful on their national exams.

Please share this report with friends, family, teachers and librarians who know the power of a book in a child's life.

Links:

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