Mobile library provides 50,000 children with access to books in Uganda

The Rotary Clubs of Ringwood, Bournemouth, Parkstone, and Pool lead by the Rotary Club of Winchester have joined together with nine Rotary Clubs in Uganda to fund the purchase and equipping of a mobile library in Kasese, Uganda


Uganda is one of the poorest nations in the world and lacks the educational resources that we take for granted.  Education in Uganda is not financed centrally, parents must pay for their children’s education.  

The fifty schools in the Kasese area all lack access to a library. 

The mobile library is designed to operate four times a week - including Saturdays for non-school going children. The specially equipped van will convey a collection of educational materials, storybooks and early literacy materials into the local school communities in order for children and teenagers to have book reading access.

The sustainability of the project has been assured through the support of the relevant local authority in Uganda

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