New Year, New Project!

We’re excited to begin the New Year with the funding of a brand-new project: Building and kitting out a library hub at Rowa Primary School in the Mutare Rural District in Zimbabwe. The project is being completed by the African Children’s Fund in conjunction with their partner Mwana Trust. 

The African Children’s Fund is a UK charity that was established to benefit under-served children. They work with grassroot partners in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. The main aim of the charity is to enable every child to gain access to education. 

Rowa Primary School does not currently have a library and the literacy resources available to pupils are limited. The library will encourage a reading culture through weekly class reading sessions and it will be used to advance the education of the students by developing life skills. It will also provide a resource for the wider local community. 

The library hub will contain fiction and non-fiction books, together with newspapers and magazines. The funding will enable the purchase of an extensive collection of textbooks aligned to the new Zimbabwean curriculum, reducing the need for students to share outdated editions. Alongside this, there will be three computers – one containing the library database, with the other two being used for research purposes. These computers will have internet access and be connected to solar panels. 

We are thrilled to be working with the African Children’s Fund, as this project perfectly aligns with one of our four core priorities – education. If you would like to know more about the charity, then please head over to https://www.africanchildrensfund.org/