The Libraries for Africa Team
Our team is amazing
We have volunteers of all ages - children, youth, adults and various roles to choose from. Together we send libraries to Ghana and are expanding to Uganda
PEACE Project Foundation
WHAT'S NEW
UGANDA SCHOOL LIBRARY & TRADE EQUIPMENT CONTAINER
Our new project is to ship a container full of books, sports equipment, tool equipment for trade training courses, laptops, kitchen supplies, musical instruments and more. All this is going to a trade school in Uganda yet they didn't know how to make it happen. PPF became aware of their need and offered to partner with our experience. Then more donations started coming in.
We are seeking to support them through finances and more donations. They can use more trade equipment and musical instruments, sewing machines and material, conference tables and chairs. Contact us if you would like to contribute to the Uganda Container project. If you give financially in the note please mention this project. The total budget is $15,000. As soon as we can raise $5000 we can rent a location and move all the donations to one site where we can prepare them for shipping.
NEW LOCATION
Our primary project is to secure a location so that we can process the libraries and supplies for projects. We are 60% on the way to meeting our goal to rent a building for one year and have some options we are looking at. We hope to create a community library so that families and volunteers can use the books and relax while behind the scenes we would have enough space to process the donations and prepare them for shipping. We will be ready to secure the building as soon as we have $2000 - 3000 a month in reoccurring donations.
Do you know of any available locations between I5 & Hwy 512, in the north, to Tumwater, in the south? Please contact us with any questions and ideas. If you would like to donate to this project please note your donation is for the new location. We are grateful any amount toward this.
We have outgrown the current library warehouse and have doubled the need for more storage. School districts have learned about the vision and offering us more books than we can currently store. We are actively fundraising for a larger location that will accommodate the needs. In the new location we plan to not only have our work areas to process the books and create the libraries, but also have more storage, our office, a local reading area for families and volunteers, and a team lounge.
VOLUNTEERS
We are looking for volunteers who would like to partner with us. Our foundation is currently 100% volunteer led and operated. We always can use more help with the books, with driving and pickup, but especially we need volunteers who would like to work from home online with our webpage and social media content, with our our LMS content creation and editing, and with video creation and editing.
We have a big vision!
Please reach out to us if you have questions or if you want to partner with us to make it happen.
Thank you for partnering with us!
CONTACT US
CONTRIBUTE
Students reading the books received at their library
We've sent 63 libraries to Ghana. These students are reading at one of them. The students and staff are genuinely very grateful for the books they receive. Prior to receiving a library the teachers usually have a small handful of books for the whole school. They write most of their lessons on the wall, covered with blackboard paint, in the morning. The books increases what the students learn and empowers the teachers to be able to be more effective.
Sewing Empowerment Centers
In the containers there is always extra room for more than the 18 libraries. We love to send donated sewing machines (pedal and electric) along with thread, material (in yards and remnants), and yarn. We can pack other sewing supplies (please contact us for more information). Graduates from the one-year training program receive a gift of sewing machine and supplies to get their business started.
We've outgrown our warehouse location
We have filled our warehouse and storing donations in five locations. There are over 150 more pallets from school districts asking us to pick them up soon. We process the books through sorting, labeling, entering their data into our app, then sorting them onto their assigned pallets. Each pallet contains one libraries with approximately 54 boxes containing about 50 books and weighing 2100-2500 pounds. We are currently looking and fundraising for a new location in the south puget sound area, between 3000-7000 sq. feet, with a cargo bay.
Clean Water
Our directors spent 1.5 months in Uganda. On the trip, they we able to facilitate getting 5 clean water filters set up in a community. Two for a secondary school, two for an lementary school, and one for near their church. All together they now have 125 gallons of clean healthy water to drink in their area. This was a team effort with Eastpointe Community Church, Pilgrims Center For Reconciliation, Connect Africa Ministries, and the team.
