Promoting libraries in Mozambique

In July 2010, Books for Kids Africa director Mary Jo Amani traveled to the villages of Vinho, Vunduzi, and Mbulaua in Sofala (Mozambique) for three weeks to distribute 1130 high quality children's books to school and community library programs, funded in part by a $6610 U.S. Embassy small grant. Books for Kids Africa staff trained teachers in each of the three elementary schools on how to read books out loud and to use the books in mobile classroom library programs where students have the chance to select books of interest and read individually several times each week.