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Our Mission

The purpose of Libraries of Love is to promote literacy in Africa by partnering with Africans to create libraries in individual schools, provide financial support to assist in the educational development of individuals, and address humanitarian needs in Africa.  

Making a Difference

Libraries of Love book volunteers
The Incredible Four
Ellen, Betty, Anna, and Paula worked all day as we start to wind up the 2019 shipment. They are the best!
Libraries of Love volunteers from Apple
Apple Volunteers
Thanks to Whitney Dixon and Liz Titus who were first-time volunteers from Apple Computers. They helped us get close to finishing boxes for the 2019 shipment. We hope to see them again!
Eagles Nest HS gets new library
Library #45
Today we organized Eagles Nest High School! Thanks for your work Paula, Grace, Elisa, and Peter, our new librarian. Our 2018 projects included this new library and the restocking of 12 existing libraries with 13,000 books. An all volunteer organization, Libraries of Love has created libraries in 38 schools in Uganda and 7 schools in Kenya. We are excited and proud to say that more than 100,000 students have had access to books in our libraries since the first Library of Love was created at Namirembe Primary School in Kampala in 2005.
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We appreciate Mackin
Mackin Educational Resources donates books
We are thankful for Mackin Educational Resources. They have supported Libraries of Love with hundreds of books each year. They provide a wonderful variety of hardback easy, fiction, and non-fiction books.
Thanks to Coughlan
Coughlan Companies donate books
Pictured are samples of the great books donated by Coughlan Companies. We are thrilled with the donation of over 4,000 new, hardback books from this supportive publisher.

Thanks to Barnes & Noble
We thank the management at the Barnes & Noble store in Round Rock for choosing Libraries of Love as their seasonal charity this year. Also, thanks to all the volunteers who came on weekends to represent us and to all of you who donated books. We collected 883 books. There will be some smiles in Uganda!

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Dell staff volunteer at Libraries of Love
Dell volunteers on January 25.
Dell volunteers are busy preparing books for our 2019 shipment. Libraries of Love appreciates all the volunteers from Dell who work to get books ready to ship to children in Uganda and Kenya. They have been helping us since the beginning of our efforts in 2005. Read More

Laurel Mountain Supports Libraries of Love

Thanks to Laurel Mountain

Libraries of Love collects books, prepares them for checkout with pockets and cards, and ships them to Uganda and Kenya. A team of volunteers then travels to the schools to install the libraries. The team takes an empty room in a school and builds bookshelves, arranges thousands of books in library order and teaches teachers and students how to use the library.
Libraries of Love has now shipped over 371,000 hardback books to Uganda and Kenya, complete with spine labels and pockets and card. This doesn’t include thousands of paperbacks we have enjoyed giving to young people. It is our honor to serve the young people of Uganda and Kenya. May God bless those who donated to make this possible. The partnership continues for a lifetime. You can help every step of the way.
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Books with Africa Themes

SPECIAL BOOK DONATIONS
We are extremely excited about a list of books created for Libraries of Love by volunteers Jim and Ellen Matthews, almost all with African themes / settings. Many are set in Uganda or Kenya. Can you imagine the big eyes as the students look at these books with familiar faces and places? You can donate books directly from the list on Amazon.
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Libraries of Love video

Video Presentation

Watch a special video showing Libraries of Love at work in Uganda, funded by supporters Lynne and Anne Dobson.

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