One of my main jobs while I've been at NWC has been to buy books for the community library that will open in January.
I love buying books, so this was hardly work for me. But it was a surprisingly difficult task. Me and Marie Aimee went to different publishers, often multiple times, and found new book shops, trying to track down the best range of fiction we could find in Kinyarwanda, English and French, for those with low levels of literacy, to more advanced readers.
As the library grows the center will be able to adapt the selection of books to what people like to read. But for now, I enjoyed carrying boxes of new shiny books, staking up piles as I walked around the store and seeing some of the books I read as a child with new covers and pictures ready to enthrall another generation.
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein
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