"A" is for Africa
Funding
The project
What we are building here
Kathonzweni AIC Boarding Primary School is the sixth Books & Beyond project and the second developed with A is for Africa. As a boarding school its 900 learners live on site, so a functioning library gives them somewhere to go for reading, curiosity and enjoyment outside classroom hours — not only for academic work.
Project at a glance
900
Learners at the school
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Books donated
Being counted
Kathonzweni
Makueni County, Kenya
Phase 3
Delivery phase
The journey
The Kathonzweni AIC Boarding Primary School journey
Every project moves through the same seven steps. Here is where this one has got to.
- The school asked — done
- We worked out what was needed — done
- Raising the money — in progress
- Collecting the books — still to come
- Building the library — still to come
- The doors opened — still to come
- Handed over to the school — still to come
Where we are now — Raising the money
We are still raising what this library needs. This is the stage where help makes the most difference.
What happened, and when
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Date not recorded
We worked out what was needed
- Identified with A is for Africa as a partner school
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Date not recorded In progress
Raising the money
- Fundraising and European school book drives
What changed
The Transformation
Drag the handle to see the same room before and after.
The before photo is not up yet
The after photo is not up yet
Where it stands now
No library yet. As a boarding school, books matter especially: learners spend much of their time within the school with very little to read outside class hours. Classes run at roughly 45–50 learners each.
Photos & Videos
2 items, in the order things happened
Around the school 2
Getting to Kathonzweni AIC Primary School
A view of the entrance to Kathonzweni AIC Primary School
Who helped here
This library exists because these people said yes.