Lubuto Library Project Inc

The Lubuto Library Partners (www.Lubuto.org) is an innovative development organization. In cooperation with Zambia’s education ministry it creates opportunities for equitable education and poverty reduction through libraries and their educational, cultural, community and psychosocial support programs. Its mission is to enrich the lives of street children, orphans and other vulnerable and out-of-school children and youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Lubuto constructs beautiful, indigenously-styled open-access libraries stocked with a comprehensive collection of well-chosen books. These libraries serve as safe havens and are the center for Lubuto’s programs, which offer discovery and joy through reading, music, art, drama, computers and other activities. The organization also leads various initiatives for the digital preservation of Zambia’s local-language materials and production of new ones, as well as a computer-based mother-tongue literacy initiative.