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 Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation,November 2010. Education Deputy Minister Chrispin Musosha In a speech read for him by his Permanent Secretary Andrew Phiri advised children to use the library to attain their dreams. Earlier Lubuto library Project President Jane Meyers said her organisation will establish similar facilities in various schools across the Country.

URL to article: http://www.znbc.co.zm/media/news/viewnews.cgi?category=22&id=1289493770

November 2010. Lusaka — U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Mark C. Storella championed a community-led, community-driven initiative today when he helped officially open the Lubuto Library Project at the Ngwerere Basic School in Lusaka’s Garden Compound. Speaking at the opening, Ambassador Storella highlighted the American-supported Lubuto Library as a model of how public private-partnerships enable communities to find innovative solutions to their education challenges. Addressing youth, he advocated that they take ownership of their education.

The Lubuto Library Project was one of 12 groups chosen from several hundred applicants worldwide to be awarded a grant from the eIFL.net Public Library Innovation Initiative, for which eifl.net received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to encourage innovation with information technology in public libraries.  Lubuto's project addresses the critical need that the educational system cannot meet for a means to teach all Zambian children to read in their original language.  Lu