About the community

Kikulu Zone is an urban based community in Kawempe Division one the five divisions of Kampala the capital city of Uganda. Kikulu zone has a total of 7,000 households with members from different parts of Uganda.

It has a slum area that has many child headed homes, street children, single mother headed homes and urban poor occupants. During this second Covid-19 lock down the community is experiencing many cases of domestic violence, children are restricted home with parents in small rooms yet the parents have not been used to staying with children. Children have been out of school for one year and three months with no learning activity. Most households have no access to reading space in their homes and they even don’t have reading materials.

There is a lot of hunger and starvation since most business closed a lot of crime related cases are brought to our offices. A library will provide reading materials to keep children busy at home during lock down and even after and will be a space through which we can sensitize parents on parenting skills, train in child protection alongside providing books. Before lockdown most people spent time going to work, others running small enterprises, youth in slums surviving in the city hawking different good. 

About the Uganda Library

English is the unifying language of the country and main subjects are taught in English.

There were no books available for the children to read in the community. This project helped building this library from the ground up with books donated by local California Bay Area community members. We collected and shipped new and gently used books to establish the community library in Uganda (Kikulu Zone) in the poor area of Kampala.