Lubuto Library Project Sponsors and Partners
The Lubuto Library Project benefits from the generosity of individual, foundation, organizational and corporate partners who embrace our mission of serving the needs of the hard-to-reach street kids, orphans and other vulnerable children of Zambia. Our supporters are integral to our success and we are proud to collaborate and partner with them into the future.
Major Donors
The Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA) granted Lubuto nearly $150,000 to support building the evidence base and advocating for innovative, sustainable and effective strategies for ensuring access to high quality educational services and support to marginalized and vulnerable children and youth in Africa. Our activities under the grant focus on documenting, assessing and sharing the outcomes and impact of the Lubuto model.
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development
A Lubuto innovation is among 32 winners of an All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development grant, made possible through the generous support of the All Children Reading Founding Partners: the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Vision and the Australian Agency for International Development. The competition to create innovative solutions to improve early grade reading in the developing world elicited more than 450 submissions from more than 75 countries. Lubuto's winning proposal, "LubutoLiteracy: Zambian teaching and learning materials for the digital age," is funded by World Vision.
Dow Jones & Company is the Lubuto Project’s major corporate partner, financing the building and stocking of the second Lubuto Library at the Ngwerere School in Lusaka. In addition to generously underwriting construction of the library buildings, Dow Jones engaged its employees worldwide to donate books for a complete library collection, supported by another generous grant from the Dow Jones Foundation. Lubuto’s relationship with Dow Jones began when Jane Meyers won the Special Libraries Association’s Dow Jones Leadership Award in 2007 and was subsequently strengthened when Clare Hart, who was Dow Jones’ Executive Vice President and President, and Anne Caputo, Executive Director, Dow Jones Media, joined our Advisory Board. Dow Jones has continued to support our work in many big and small ways. Dow Jones and its employees have opened their hearts to Africa’s most vulnerable children and youth through Lubuto Libraries. Through a campaign on their Facebook page during the 2011 holiday season, Dow Jones employees’ demonstrated their caring by generating a $5,000 donation through their “likes” of a film of Lubuto’s children thanking them.
Lubuto was one of 12 groups chosen from several hundred applicants worldwide to be awarded a grant of nearly US$30,000 from the eIFL Public Library Innovation Initiative, for which eIFL received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to encourage innovation with information technology in public libraries. Under this grant, Zambian youth who developed computer skills in Lubuto Libraries earned school fees for creating 700 computer-based reading lessons in the major Zambian languages, working with Zambian teachers and guided by the government curriculum. Young artists from the LubutoArts program also earned school fees by illustrating the lessons with computer graphics. eIFL continues to support our work, notably by supporting Jane Meyers’ presentations at the 2012 IFLA conference in Helsinki, and the eLearning Africa 2011 conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
International Mailing Solutions very generously cut the cost of airfreight of our first book collection, in August 2007, nearly in half. Then it sent our second collection by sea at no cost at all – door-to-door from Washington, DC to the Ngwerere Library in Lusaka! We are profoundly grateful to Bill Childs and our very generous friends at IMS for this major contribution. We are also very grateful to our friends Kerry Knight and Bob Cline at National Geographic Society who asked their shippers, IMS, to support us in this way, and have handled all of the communications and other logistics with IMS, as well as picking up and storing our collection until the library was ready for it to be shipped.
Sustaining Sponsors
Foundation, Professional and Government Partners
Zambian Partners
School and University Partners
Fundraising Partners
Publishers and other Book Donors
Past Supporters
