Capacity Building
Without qualified teachers, providing quality education will always be a struggle. As SAL, we ensure that teachers have the library management skills required to instill literacy in every child.
BECAUSE
professionally trained teachers provide children with the transferable life-skills required to succeed in life.
We empower teachers with/to:
- Library Management Skills to effectively run libraries.
- Use of storybooks to teach literacy competency and life skills.
- Bring books to life through fun reading and writing programs.
We empower learners with
- Library management skills to be responsible in the library space.
- Leadership skills as Junior Reading Champions (JRCs)
Advocacy
Our Projects
Our Projects
A library in every school
Our Pillars
Here is what Start a Library stands for and doies on a day-to-day basis.
Establishing Active Libraries
We help in making school libraries effective by donating textbooks.
Capacity building for sustainability
Teacher librarians, Junior reading champions/library prefects and career mentorship.
Advocacy
The advocacy pillar employs a multi-faceted approach to influence desired change through;
a) Modeling children as literacy change agents;
b) Teachers as champions for bringing books to life through the library reading programs;
c) Advocating for effective library policies while embracing storybooks as language textbooks.
a) Modeling children as literacy change agents;
b) Teachers as champions for bringing books to life through the library reading programs;
c) Advocating for effective library policies while embracing storybooks as language textbooks.
Meet the Start A Library Team
Learn more about the people behind Start A Library
Felix Odhul
Schools Liaison Officer
Janet Wendy
Grants and Fundraising Officer
Damaris Kakui
Advocacy and Partnerships Officer
Faith Nanjala
Programs Coordinator
Faith Nanjala
Program Coordinator