What we do, and why it matters.
Four pillars hold up our work. Each one is rooted in a single conviction: that children in informal settlements are not subjects of someone else’s story. They are authors of their own.
Storytelling & Voice
We empower children to tell their own stories.
Children growing up in informal settlements are often the subject of other people’s narratives — aid reports, statistics, news coverage. We flip that.
Through our documentation work, writing programmes, and Children’s Community Publishing Series, we give children the tools to name their own world and share it on their own terms.
Reading Culture & Access
We make books and reading materials accessible wherever children are.
We publish values-based children’s books rooted in African realities, and we bring them directly into communities through mobile library units on regular, reliable schedules.
Our goal is simple: no child in an informal settlement should grow up having never held a book written for them.
Civic Empowerment
We equip children with the knowledge to understand and change their communities.
Literacy is not only about reading. It is about understanding how power works, what rights you hold, and what you can do with both.
Through our enrichment programmes and fellowships, we nurture young people who do not just know their community’s challenges, they have the knowledge, language, and confidence to act on them.
Inclusion & Early Support
We ensure no child is left outside the story.
Children with developmental delays, disabilities, and learning differences in informal settlements face a compounding disadvantage — overlooked by systems that were never designed with them in mind.
We design inclusive books and materials specifically for these children, and we equip the caregivers, teachers, and community health workers closest to them with practical tools and early support pathways.
Children’s Community Publishing Series.
More than donating books. Children creating the books their communities will read.
Our Children’s Community Publishing Series does exactly what its name says. Children in informal settlements research, write, and illustrate original books. Those books are professionally published, under the children’s names, and distributed through our mobile libraries back into their own communities.
An author at ten years old, in a community where most adults never see their name on a book cover. That is the moment we work for. And the moment that changes what is possible for the next child watching.
Support the next cohort
Help us bring books, and authors, into every community.
Sponsor a mobile library, fund a fellowship cohort, or donate the materials that put a book in a child’s hand.