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Invisible Children uses film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony's rebel war and restore LRA-affected communities in central Africa to peace and prosperity.

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February 24, 2010
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Category: Homepage, IC in Uganda, schools for schools | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Contributor: Invisible Children

S4S Update: The Books are Here!

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Workers unload boxes of books destined for the libraries of our 11 Ugandan partner schools

In December 2009, Books for Africa generously donated more than 24,000 titles from books collected throughout the United States. The books were shipped overseas and upon their arrival, the Invisible Children staff quickly began sorting through them and preparing them for distribution.

Today, we are excited to announce that all of our 11 partner schools will receive non-core curriculum books that will be used to furnish their once bare libraries. As of now, the majority of school libraries do not provide students with the resources needed to continue reading outside of the classroom. This is the first major push from Schools For Schools (S4S) to encourage children to embrace reading culture.

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December 1, 2009
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Category: IC in Uganda, schools for schools | Tags: , , , , , , | Contributor: Invisible Children

S4S Update: The Books Have Arrived!

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One of the many boxes of books recently delivered to Invisible Children’s Gulu office

It ain’t easy moving nine tons of anything, but books in particular are hard work.  A team of six men just unloaded dozens and dozens of boxes of books—24,000 in all—at Invisible Children’s Gulu office.  Sweat flowed down their faces under the midday sun like water from a tap.  They persevered though, and now we have our hands on something we’ve been working to procure for months:  enough books to stock the libraries of our 11 partner schools.

In January and February, once the new Ugandan school year starts, S4S will work to distribute all of the titles to our school libraries.  The books—some of the 1.6 million collected during the Round 3 book drive—cover a wide range of subjects and genres; some are textbooks and others are novels.  As we prepare to launch our reading club curriculum, READ, at our schools, the books couldn’t have come at a more perfect time.  They’ll supplement the novels students read in their clubs.  The READ clubs and this recent shipment of books are the latest steps IC has taken to improve reading culture at its partner schools.  In Uganda, like many other countries in East Africa, students have next-to-no access to reading materials while at school.  Making books available is the first part of the reading culture equation.  Invisible Children has teamed up with Books for Africa (booksforafrica.org) to bring this book delivery to fruition.

The librarians have been trained.  The books are here.  Bring on the new school year!

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