The African Children's Book Box Society
The African Children's Book Box Society is a charitable organization founded in Nairobi, Kenya in 1991. Our society's main purpose is to support and increase literacy in Africa by providing children in African schools with their own stories and literature written by African authors.
Other charities collect donated books for Africa. Unfortunately most of these books are in English and storybooks are largely from the European/North American culture. Africans have a rich culture of their own and books of their own culture and in their own language are sadly lacking in most African schools. The African Children's Book Box Society tries to make up for this lack.
We do this by putting together and distributing portable libraries of African books in the form of "Book Boxes" to African schools. We are currently operating in Kenya and Tanzania and hope to expand to other countries.
Since 2007 our Charity's goals expanded to collabarate with Orphans in the Wild (UK) and Mufindi Orphans (USA) under the umbrella of the Foxes NGO based in Tanzania. Foxes NGO (non-governmental organization) humanitarian goals are to support the welfare of needy African children and their caregivers.
OUR CURRENT PROJECTS:
- Yearly operating costs for the Mufindi Children's Village (orphanage)
- Meal-in-a-Mug daily enriched porridge (uji) for 545 elementary school children and staff at Igoda Village School
- Ongoing support of the Igoda Elementary School Library built in 2008 by this Charity
- Construction of Lahunga Secondary School Library - ongoing
- Ongoing support of the Igoda Community Hall and kitchen built in 2009 by this Charity
- Salaries for 2 teachers, 2 Community Hall program organizers, 2 Meal-in-a-Mug organizers
- Planned purchase of a CD4 machine for the CTC Centre (care treatment and counseling for HIV/AIDS patients) urgently needed for the proper treatment of HIV/AIDS patients in the area.
- Construction of latrines and water catchment at Igoda School and Community Hall
- Continuing repair and upkeep of bibi (grandmother with orphaned grandchildren) homes
- Volunteer teaching and teaching ESL in preparation for secondary school (2 teachers for a minumum of 1 month a year)
- Continuing distribution of book boxes to rural schools
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Updates
Coming AUG 18, 2012: The next African Children's Book Box Society Fundraising Corn Roast. See below for details on the last successful event. We hope to raise even more money and have even more fun this year.
If you have something you would like to donate to our fundraising auction, or if you would like to volunteer to help please contact us! |
The African Children's Book Box Society CORN ROAST raised over $40,000 for Tanzanian children. (see the photos!)
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Above: The school lunch program at Igoda school. See our 2009 slide show and our 2010 slide show for more pictures.
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