This campaign has now closed
In 2009, we aim to provide at least 65,000 books, at a cost of £2 a book (but worth an estimated £785,000 due to the high value donations we receive from UK publishers) for our partners in Kenya. We respond to partner libraries’ detailed request forms so that the materials they receive are relevant and appropriate to their needs.
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In Kenya, almost a million children who should be in school are not enrolled. Over a fifth of adults are unable to read and write with understanding. The expansion of Kenya’s education system has compromised the quality of education, with most of the budget being used to pay teachers’ salaries. Resources, particularly books, are very scarce. Over half the grade 6 pupils in Kenya attend classrooms that do not have a single book and up to 40% of teachers do not have manuals in the subjects they teach . In 2009, we aim to provide over 65,000 books with an estimated value of £785,000 to our partners in Kenya. Our main partner is the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) which has a network of 30 libraries and provides access to books and information for readers throughout the country. Special services include support for prison libraries, a camel mobile library service that travels out to nomadic communities in the semi-desert province of Garissa, adaptable caterpillar shelves and book boxes for rotation in the Karatina area, an HIV/AIDS information awareness service and a service for the visually impaired. We also provide books for colleges, training centres and grassroots community organisations, including organisations working with refugees. Books change lives. We need to raise £140,000 to provide these books and manage our programme in Kenya in 2009.