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Listen Up! |
It’s that time of year when everyone wants your attention, and KidsLibs Trust is no exception. Over the next four weeks, we hope to introduce a lot more people to our small but growing network of free community libraries located in some of the poorest parts of Kenya. We asked children’s author Beverley Naidoo, our patron, to tell you why she supports KidsLibs. Here’s what she had to say: “Libraries are treasure troves. The turning of a key in the mind of a reader is a mysterious, powerful process. Once turned, there is no going back. An idea, image or feeling that arises as we read a book can so touch us that we begin to see ourselves, our world, differently. Understanding that there are different ways of seeing is the beginning of a journey connecting us to others, often across time and place. It’s a journey that hopefully leaves us a little wiser, with our horizons widened and a sense that we are, in ourselves, agents of change.” |
This week, we're asking you to join us in letting people know about KidsLibs.
Please, spend two minutes making a list of people you know who might want to connect with us. It might be a friend who loved their safari in Kenya, but worried about all the kids not in school. A children’s librarian or reading teacher. The mom down the street who organized story hours at your local library. Anyone whose life was changed by the right book at the right time. (That’s most of us, isn’t it?)
Encourage those people to take a look at our website, drop in on Facebook, or send us an e-mail to sign up for our e-mail newsletter, the Bibliosaur. And ask them to tell a few friends about us as well.
Some people say libraries are old hat. But here in Kenya, where electricity is erratic, community spaces that are free and open to all are a rare and endangered species, and most kids rarely hold a book that isn’t a school course book, our little centers are revolutionary and cutting edge.
Spread the word!
