Digital library education lifeline in our slums

Safe spaces digital Library has provided more than 2500 girls in Mathare Slums opportunity to access educational resources that improve academic performance,bridge the digital divide and offer job market related skills.

Our Digital Library  also offers vital resources during crises like school closures,teachers strikes and also when there are natural calamities like the Covid Outbreak.

Girls have a safe space to interact through book clubs facilitated by the library thus growing their public speaking skills which are essential for self expression.

The library also serves as a research centre for the community on various global issues affecting the world.

We could not have done this without your support  and we are very grateful

THank you so much for your Generousity..

Dear supporters of Safe Spaces,

Developing your personal identity, your personality, your dreams in life often goes through literature. It broadens your world, it broadens your view on others, you recognize maybe yourself in the story and adventures of the heroins in the book.

Through the digital library children can join the 'book club' where they collectively read a book, discuss it like all book clubs do and write their own view and take on the book. What they have learned from it, how it has affected them and what they loved most about the book.

At the moment 20 girls attend the book club every Saturday. The teachers in school recently informed Safe Spaces that they have clearly seen that the literacy of these girls has significantly improved since they joined the book club.

It helps them with all subjects in school to better understand, use grammar and vocabulary in a different way, understanding more and reading between the lines.

This gives us absolutely the motivation to give more girls the opportunity to attend the book club when we will have the means to do so.

For now, thank you so much for your support,