We appreciate the kindness of book publishers and suppliers who help make scenes like this possible in Libraries of Love libraries at 23 schools in Uganda, serving about 30,000 students.  The following have donated for 2012 projects:

Mackin Educational Resources
Rainbow Book Company
Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc.
The Penworthy Company
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Hachette Book Group
Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Rosen Publishing Group
Sylvan Dell Publishing

Scott and Tracy Porter, volunteer coordinators, are pictured with the final boxes prepared for the 2012 shipment.

Next we'll pallatize the more than 400 boxes and place labels on each designating the receiving school.

Shipment is scheduled for Feb. 29. Then, time off until after spring break - and we'll start the process again for 2013.

Thanks to this team from Dell for volunteering on short notice to help us complete the 2012 libraries. On Feb. 10, the team completed 14 boxes containing 302 books for the medical library at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital. Thanks goes to Brynna Vogel, Andrew Beard, Bernadette McGhee, Scott Brown, John Brown, Kelly Jones, and Bob Houghman.

Thanks to this team from Dell for volunteering on Feb 10. The team completed 16 boxes containing 732 books, which finished the school library books for the 2012 shipment. Thank you so much for returning to volunteer and help us complete this work. Thanks go to Amanda Mills, Stacey Meyer, Tammy Bray, Mike Lawhan, Kris D'Amico, Linda Lu, Mark Betteridge, and Lupe Guzeman

Executive Direct Trudy Marshall accepts handmade canvas book bags from Claire, a 16-year-old student.

Claire also donated notepads and boxes of colored pencils.

Thanks to students from Interact (Rotary) Clubs from Hendrickson High School and Westlake High School who worked on Saturday, Feb. 4, preparing  books. We appreciate their volunteer spirit. Pictured are Hendrickson students.

What an astonishing Summer 2011! Libraries of Love has completed four new beautiful, well-stocked libraries serving 5,000 students. We are now providing books to over 30,000 students in 24 schools, thanks to our wonderful donors, volunteers, and supporters. The librarian and headteacher (principal) meetings were an amazing time of bonding. Plus, an unbelievable amount of learning/teaching took place. Total successes! Walking onto campuses and seeing children in classes, and sitting around the grounds reading books, has been a joy. Those kids may never realize the immense amount of time and effort required to provide those books, but they do understand that they have books because people in America love them. Read more about the 2011 Libraries.          Watch a video about the 2011 libraries.

2005

800 students served
2009

4,500 students helped

2006

3,000 students reached
2010

5,000 students touched

2007

4,600 students enriched
2011

5,000 students get books

2008

7,100 students benefit

Libraries of Love has created libraries for 23 schools serving about 30,000 students. We are an all-volunteer organization that relies on the community to help create libraries in Ugandan schools.