Monday, June 5, 2017

Open Books, Open Doors

What do grandmas and grade school children in the Kelowna, BC, region have in common?

Both have been actively supporting humanitarian work in East Africa through the charity Niteo Africa. Every Wednesday, the grandmas—some in their 80s and 90s—get together to sew children’s outfits using donated material.

Through Niteo’s Month of Love campaign, which ran during February, local students aged 5-17 donated children’s books and helped pay to send them to Africa. The books are sent in shipping containers, which are then converted into small libraries set up in impoverished areas of Uganda and South Sudan. Niteo has been committed to strengthening the literacy culture in East Africa for over a decade and has sent over 100 tons of gently used Canadian children’s books and literature. It sees literacy as the door to building a better future for East African children.

Niteo’s project has been supported by the CLAC Foundation, which helps support struggling workers and their families in Canada and around the world. To see the many other projects that the foundation is involved in or to support the foundation, visit clacfoundation.ca to learn more and to donate.

Open Books, Open Doors

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