US-based nonprofit builds libraries for street children in Africa

An article on the State Department’s USINFO site highlights the Lubuto Library Project, a DC-based organization helping street children and AIDS orphans in Zambia by building high-quality libraries and library collections and offering the children a safe and welcoming environment in which to learn. The first library, which is built using traditional Zambian architecture, will be opening in Lusaka later this year. This structure will be replacing a smaller library, started by Lubuto Library Project founder Jane Kinney Meyers and the staff of Fountain of Hope, a drop-in center for street children, which is currently housed in a metal shipping container on the Fountain of Hope premises. Two other libraries in rural Zambia are also scheduled to begin construction and the organization hopes to expand the project into more areas throughout Zambia and into other African nations. More information at the organization’s website here.

May 10, 2007 by Uncategorized 0

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