By Lee Koelzer | Director
I love books. They make me happy. Even being around books makes me happy. But when I see other people enjoying books as much as I do, that's possibly the best feeling ever.
We recently opened a new Library in Walakuba- a slum area outside Jinja. The Library is located inside Florence Anwar's home- a member of our partner organization Lubanga Twero Women's Group.
As usual, when we started offloading the books from the car, random children started popping up (those who unfortunately do not attend school). I invited them over, but they did not speak english and had no clue what picture books were, let alone know how to read. After a few minutes a teenage girl came over and joined. She knew a little bit of english but could not read. When I tried reading the book aloud she could not understand me, so I told her the story of the book using simple words. (Farm animals had taken over the farmers house and were wearing his socks, using his toothbrush- ect. While the farmer and family were forced to move into the barn.) When she heard the simple version she laughed and laughed then told the story to the young children as well, pointing out the story through the photos. They were all laughing and having a wonderful time. After a few minutes of this, all the kids started making up their own stories to follow the pictures.
It made my heart happy.
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