Press Room

Sankofa

• In August, 2010, Founder Anne Moore discussed KidsLibs in a series of guest blogs for a UK organization of professional librarians. Read the first, second, and third installments on the CILIP website.

• The Fall, 2009 issue of Sankofa, a journal of African children's and young adult literature, includes an article by children's author Beverley Naidoo, our patron. In it, Naidoo uses her experience of visiting KidsLibs and other libraries in Kenya as the starting place for a discussion of her novel Burn My Heart.

• A related article by Naidoo appeared in 2008 in Books for Keeps about the post-election violence and the role that KidsLibs centers played in communities most affected by the crisis. 

• Learn about our partnership with Libraries of Hope through this web article.  Look under "Gift of Stories" on the right.

• Our friends in Darbyshire, England learned more about the KLT mission through this article in the Peak Advertiser newspaper.

• Here's an article about KidsLibs Trust from Kenya's own The Daily Nation.

Stephen with BookAid film crew

• Check it out! The staff and members of our Mathare North/MYSA library welcomed a film crew from BookAid International, who visited the library, took a walk in Mathare Valley, and talked to children and adults about the role the library plays in their lives, especially during tough times like the post-election violence. The resulting short film is now on-line in the Books Change Lives section of the Book Aid Web Site.