Global Alliance for Africa works with schools, students, teachers and volunteers to raise funds to build libraries, collect books and provide educational materials for community  libraries/resource centers throughout East Africa. Global Alliance’s libraries primary focus is on providing educational resources to orphans and other vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS as a foundation for them to rise out of poverty.

Our goal is to have five libraries completed by the summer of 2010 in Kenya and Tanzania. Libraries in Western Kenya and in Kibera Slums, Nairobi, have already been built. Once those five are complete, we will focus on additional libraries in Western Kenya, Northern Uganda, and Liberia.

These libraries are managed and operated by Global Alliance for Africa.  Each library will have a general collection; a children's library; a community room; and a resource center/internet cafe. Additionally, outreach to the community will be done through educational programs, literacy, conservation practices and other programs for adults and children.

It is important for the sustainability of these libraries to be intrinsically embedded in the structure of the host community, so that it will function as an indigenous catalyst that encourages education, self-reliance, and independence for all of the orphans and vulnerable children in the area. This cultural sustainability provides a broad underlying framework for the effectiveness of each library.

Global Alliance has formed a
Community Library Membership Program
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