Making a difference, one book at a time. 
Kigutu Primary School in Burndi, Africa is a grade school with 270 students located in the poorest of the poor countries. These children must share textbooks, pencils and paper. At present there are classrooms where two or three teachers share one textbook. They have no bookshelves, library books, or windows to keep out the elements. Our project (started in March 2011) is working to raise money to purchase books for these children.

“I am a teacher next door. I have 61 students in one class. I have only one book. My kids have no desks upon which to write. The classroom has no door. No electricity or running water. At the end of the school year, teachers are blamed when kids do not do well. "- Kigutu teacher speaking at the First Annual Community Health Forum. In April 2011 five members of the Books for Kigutu team packed three boxes of children books, some in French, pencils, chalk, calculators, markers and paper, and sent it to Kigutu via Village Health Care workers in New York. These materials were distributed in December 2011 at the end of the first school term.  Church World Service also donated 300 school kits to the school after being contacted by Frances Kidder, wife of Tracy Kidder, author of "Strength in What Remains." Those supplies were handed out in September 2011.

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