Being a volunteer in a new country, living in a new environment (in the slum), new neighbors, and new faces around.

 

How can a mzungu run a book drive, hah!?

 

Obviously, there is only one place on earth where anyone can do freely without being "seen" as a mzungu-- the internet! 

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There are many advantages when you have people around who do not know much about computers, and they will let you use their Facebook account, and voila--you have your own identity. Browsing to new territory, a new language, new group pages, and a new "Kenyan" persona thinking. #thiswillwork 

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Well, it did! The mzungu found a local online, a lady looking for a place where their family book collections will be taken care of and most beneficial. Thank you, Jesus! 

 

Finally, the Brosis Library is taking shape at last. Now, a joint collection of books from different countries and the locals. 

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Thank you, Miss Susan Nyenga. Again, the children in the slum are thankful for all the books donated. 

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The Brosis Library has multilingual books from around the world and a few English children´s books.

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Brosis´s vision and mission;

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• To create a library in the slum for the children where reading and storytelling are an essential part of growing up for every child.

• To welcome visitors from different countries and read books in their own language to the children in the slum. 

• To establish itself as a community library center with computers where children in the slum can encourage each other to read and enjoy as a child with other kids. 

• To support literacy and ultimately to see our children in the slum succeed in school.