Slide show shared by Lavinia Gadsden at workshop on PD & travel for teachers

1. Ugandan Community Library Association
UgCLA
Lavinia Gadsden
Trip to Uganda August 9-24, 2010
LGadsden@gmail.com

2. Uganda Community Library Association
is an organization of grassroots libraries in mostly rural communities
throughout Uganda.
These libraries are founded by members of communities of all sizes.
They find buildings, books and local volunteers to make a library available
so that local children and adults will have books to read.
Uganda is building a culture of reading.

3. UgCLA has over 80 member libraries.
Each is individually run by its local
community.

4. The dream:
Libraries across Uganda full of books
so children and adults can learn to read.
Universal primary school education is available, but there are no books to give
anyone the opportunity to practice the skill of reading.
And once they graduate from primary school?
Libraries can make a significant difference!

5. Gayaza Family Resource Centre
One of 3 meeting places with a limited number of books.
Augustine Napagi, the master mind and leader of these centres carries books
from one centre to another.
A local school teacher volunteers to meet with children and their mothers twice a week
in this 3 sided bamboo shelter.

6. Gayaza Family Resource Centre
Kate Parry, the Director of UgCLA
Library Leader, Augustine Napagi
Kazoi, Local Teacher

7. Gayaza Family Resource Centre
also Supervised by Augustine Napagi
Children suddenly appeared out of nowhere once they heard of my visit.
I brought them 25 new books, lots with fun
features such as music or pop-ups.

8. Kyabutaika Community Library
Director: Frederick Kasozi
Local business man who is main financial source of funding
for the building and a man to keep the doors open for the children and adults.

9. Kyabutaika Community Library
Some of the kids
outside the library.
Students studying very focused and
undisturbed by all the commotion
of the kids.

10. The Blessed Foster Family Foundation Library
Lwanyi Village, Masaka District, Uganda
Prince Mawanda,
Chairman of the Foundation and Librarian
is in the grey suit jacket on the left.
His daughter in his arms.
Inside the library
with the community children and adults.

11. The Blessed Foster Family Foundation Library
Lwanyi Village, Masaka District, Uganda
Local children outside the library.

12. Kitengesa Community Library
Buwuuga Sub-County
Masaka District
“A small library in a remote village of south western Uganda
has expanded into a national network which benefits thousands of people.
The facility has inspired children and adults alike to raise their literacy levels.”
Mike Woodridge of BBC reports: Video below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11499311
Video: Mike Wooldridge of BBC reports.
8 October 2010

13. Kitengesa Community Library
11 years of hard work to build a library of this
size, with a collection of 3,000 books in both
Ugandan and English, lots of afterschool
programs for students,
and a following of adults learning to read.
I was amazed with the fascination these teenagers
had for the pictures books and the enjoyment they
showed as I read to them.
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Groups of Mothers come in on Saturdays
to learn to read to their children.

14. Bushikori Christian Centre
Mabanga Village, Buirabi Parish, Bunghoko Subcountry, Mbale
Jane, the librarian and one of the school
Show and Tell – science, history classes that crowd her library
and picture books. as often as possible.

15. Bushikori Christian Centre
In the middle of nowhere.
Two of the school kids in front of the
shelves of books
A library built to support the local school. Jane Ojok
at her circulation desk!

16. Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan
and Needy Project
This project is an amazing.
It is a tiny village up in the mountains
on the border of Kenya.
Emmanuel Norman Nakhokho
is a 20 year old villager who has raised
money to help build this mud brick
school, one room at a time.
Soon he will add a library.
How has he done it?
Facebook : $5 - $20.00 at a time

18. One of three classrooms
Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan and Needy Project

19. Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan
and Needy Project
The favorite!
Some of the Nakhokho family’s
Elmo Goes on Safari
8 children.
With the button to push for music!!
I brought 200 new books from the United States to distribute to the libraries I visited.

20. Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan
and Needy Project
Emmanuel’s Family, his mother and
Two of Emmanuel’s sisters. father are teachers in the school.

21. Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan
Project
Mt Elgon, Emmanuel’s home
border between Kenya and Uganda and outhouse below

22. Ugandan Community Library Association http://UgCLA.org

23. I left Uganda and spent 5 days in
Rwanda.
I visited 2 other organizations:
Ready for Reading is another non-
profit that met with the UgCLA
Advisory Committee to share ideas.
Miracle Corners is an organization
that a friend introduced me to. She is
a major supporter.

24. I visited a library built by another non-profit organization named
Ready for Reading.
It has a different model. The money for this library was raised in the United States, It
is being supported by money that is raised in the United States.
Kagugu Primary School Library
Kigali, Rwanda
http://readyforreading.org

25. Kagugu Primary School Library
Fifth Grade class reading picture books in Emmanuel, the school librarian
English in his library

26. Emmanuel and a teacher
outside the Library/Reading Hall

27. Miracle Corners
outside Kigali, Rwanda
Another model of improving communities.
http://www.mcwglobal.org/
“The Community Development Initiative of Miracle Corners aims to develop sustainable
youth-focused learning centers as spaces for education, exchange and entrepreneurship
in communities in Africa.”

28. My interest in seeing Miracle Corner’s new community center was/is
my relationship with Jacqueline Murekatete.
She is the only survivor in her family of 7 to survive the Rwandan genocide.
• Jacqueline is raising money and most
importantly awareness of genocide
around the world.
• She is the founder of Jacqueline's
Human Rights Corner. Mental and
physical health services will be
provided to the millions of survivors of
the Rwandan genocide.
Jacqueline's vision is a world without genocide
and a peaceful and stable Rwanda.

29. The end of an amazing journey
The Golden Monkeys Audio/Video clip from my visit to the
Volcanoes National Park Bunabumali Good Samaritan Orphan
and Needy Project
Outside of Kinigi, Rwanda