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Gacharageini: April 2010 update Gacharageini is a village in Murang’a district, serving a mainly tea growing population. Children when they are not in school are inevitably out with their family picking tea, or out on the roads being idle. This area is very different from our other rural centre in Sipili, Laikipia West, being green lush and a LOT cooler! This is a Kikuyu area, with few other tribes here, never mind people from other countries. Thanks to donor BookAid International, the library is being built beneath the Catholic church hall, and is being run by the Catholic church, but it is NOT a Catholic library! It is for everyone. Trainee staff have been chosen (7 trainees) , and we are waiting for the bank account to become active so we can start both construction, and training of staff (we need to get our stationary to start cataloguing and making spine labels etc for the books). KLT books are already here, and books from BookAid International will arrive in June, making a stock of between 5,000 and 6,000 volumes. Anne and Patrick are living in the area to ensure work progresses well, and to get a feel for the local community. They also plan to visit local schools to talk about the library and meet community members. |
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Library committee with Patrick
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Kinamba, Laikipia West: April 2010 update Kinamba is a town located about an hour away from Sipili where our other rural centre in Laikipia West is located. It is a busy, bustling town, always noisy and full of people. The town leaders have approached KLT about making a library there (several have seen the Sipili library). Anne and Patrick went to meet community members on April 16th, and to see the proposed site, which is a ¼ - ½ acre piece of community land to be set aside by the community for a library. |
