Please note that while donations made now are tax deductible after Maria's Libraries receives 501(c) status, currently we do not have that status. We expect the process to be complete before the end of the tax year.
Mission
To promote and develop an integrated network of libraries and library services in Kenya, fully connected with each other, their national system, and the world.
"The urban poor and the rural areas had really no access to luxuries in between hard covers. They are presumed to be illiterate . . . and poor. . . . How does one overcome the isolation imposed by poverty and illiteracy? . . . They are poor and illiterate; therefore there is no need for bookshops or libraries. But because no bookshops or libraries are available, people are denied the very means of knowledge and information which might help in their attempt to organize and break the circle of illiteracy."
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o