Schools Program
In order to educate U.S. school children about the impact that AIDS has had on their sub-Saharan African peers, the Lubuto Library Project has developed a program for middle and high school students. Learning about the situation of orphans and vulnerable children is reinforced as school students sort, select and classify books that will become Lubuto collections. Adult volunteers oversee the students’ activities, and volunteer librarians provide instruction in selecting and organizing the books. To guide the volunteers and help them know more about the children they are helping, we produced a short video on the Project, narrated by highly respected educator and civil rights leader Julian Bond (see Kids Just Like You, below).
To date, U.S. high school students have collected over 6,500 books, 3,000 of which will be included in our first 5,000-volume shipment to our new library in Lusaka. Those books not usable have been donated elsewhere, including a large donation to singer Faith Hill's efforts to provide reading materials to children in Mississippi displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Kids Just Like You
The movie "Kids Just Like You" was produced by the Lubuto Library Project for use in high schools and middle schools in the U.S. and Canada, to support our creation of libraries for street kids and other orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Sahara Africa, and to raise awareness of the affect of HIV-AIDS on young people in Africa. Narrated by the incomparable Julian Bond, the 10-minute film features scenes of street kids in Zambia along with students from Edmund Burke and Green Acres Schools in the Washington, D.C. Kids Just Like You also includes interviews of distinguished Lubuto Advisory Board member, Mulenga Kapwepwe and former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Arlene Render.
To preview the film, please watch the version that we are making available on our web site by clicking below. This web version is for previewing only, but we are happy to send you a DVD copy of projection quality. Please contact us with your name and mailing address to request a DVD copy.
