Maktaba Foundation

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Maktaba Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization whose core objective is to increase access to educational resources for the communities in Kenya through establishment of community resource centres, mentorship and sponsorship programs. Maktaba was founded in 2009 and officially registered as a NGO in 2011.

Our vision
To be a partner in fostering education through provision of supplement resources that will propagate and enrich learning and teaching in Kenya.

Our mission
We are dedicated to transforming and enhancing education in Kenya by creating a pool of educational resources and enabling underprivileged children access quality education.

Our strategy
To bridge the literacy and information gap by availing reading materials and equipment, providing mentorship programs, scholarships and youth empowerment at arm´s length across the country.

Our objectives:
• To promote, establish, equip, manage and maintain a functional network of public and private library services in Kenya.
• To promote increased access to educational materials and information facilities across the country
• To provide opportunities for communities to enhance their reading and information seeking habits, and therefore sustain literacy.
• To promote information literacy and reading culture amongst Kenyans.
• To create employment through professional engagement of the schools and communities in the management and maintenance of the libraries.
• To create community awareness over new and arising topical issues affecting education and information technology sectors and related trends across the globe.

Programs
• Community resource centres: We establish community resource centres with a library, a talent and skill development centre and an ICT centre.
• Mentorship program: The aim is to expose students to role models so as to learn through the success of mentors, to enhance students´ educational and personal growth through formation of reading clubs and to support the beneficiaries to excel personal growth, career development and even life values.
• Scholarship program to help students pursue their educational goals.

Andrew Muthee Gitau is the Chairman of the Maktaba Foundation.

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