KidsLibs aims to work
with Community Based Organisations to create Community Based Information
Centres. KidsLibs will ensure the Centres will
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Provide access to information
for the communities living in the slums of Nairobi and other information
deprived areas of Kenya
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provide a safe location
for children where they can read books, do their schoolwork, access
information and feel at home.
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Provide a space for informal
learning. Where imaginations can grow, and new questions be thought
of. This is a new concept for Kenya, where 'library' traditionally
means "school".
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Provide a space for community
activities. Be a safe place to meet friends.
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To give books that helps
kids with work, and give answers to anything.
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To make reading clubs
where members can talk about books and writing.
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Offer storytelling to
the community, both traditional Kenyan storytelling and storytelling
in English using books.
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Provide an opportunity
for children to write their own stories, dramas, poems, to draw
pictures etc.
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Provide a link with
other organizations.
- To keep the libraries free and open to
all community members regardless of age, ethinic origin, or religion.
enable users of the libraries
to understand how a library works, and to know that their libraries
work in the same way as libraries all over the world.All the information
books are classified according to the Dewey Decimal classification
system. Fiction books are organized alphabetically.
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