Books, stories, and knowledge for children in disadvantaged communities.
We don’t just give children books, we make them authors. Through our Children’s Community Publishing Series, children in Kibera, Mathare, and Korogocho write, illustrate, and publish books under their own names.
It began with bearing witness.
Virtue Literacy Africa began with a book — Place Called Kibera, an unflinching record of life inside one of Africa’s most densely populated communities. That book gave voice to people who are rarely heard.
But giving voice, we learned, is only the beginning. A child who can read, who understands their community and their rights, who can put words to their world — that child becomes something extraordinary. That conviction is the engine behind everything we do.
Read our full storyWe didn’t set out to build a programme. We set out to bear witness, and then realised that witness alone was never going to be enough.Justine Mwaniki — Founder, Virtue Literacy Africa
Four pillars. One conviction: every child has a story worth hearing.
Our work spans storytelling, access, civic empowerment, and inclusion built around the children of Kibera, Mathare, and Korogocho, and the people who walk alongside them.
Children writing the books their communities will read.
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, into the hands of their classmates, siblings, and neighbours.
No child in an informal settlement should grow up having never held a book written for them. We go further: we make sure they also hold a book written by them.
Read about the seriesBuild something that endures.
Join us, not as a spectator, but as a co-builder of communities where every child has a voice and a future.