Lets Learn Community Libraries Project

The Let’s Learn Communities Library Project aims to tackle the problem of unequal access to quality education by providing library services to primary and high school children in a peri-urban rural communities in which is 40-50 km from Harare.

Since 2018, I have been running two community libraries in the communities of Domboshava, Charlotte Brooke and Crowhill. We have run regular book and laptop drives which has led to us having 600 books and 5 laptops that are used by children in the libraries. We have also partnered with ZimLibrary which has a stock of 4 000 books which we can borrow on a regular basis to then share in our communities.

Firstly, we have provided children library services that prior to or initiative had never experienced the how library works. We have so far been able to impact at least 1 000 children. Secondly, during the Covid-19 pandemic, because schools were closed, our libraries became the only spaces children could come to and get books to read back at home. Thirdly, we have also inspired youth to be volunteers in these libraries by supporting our book and laptop drives and being librarians. We also work with communities by supporting small schools by providing access to our books.