About Mathare Community Center Library
Mathare Community Center Library was founded in the year 2018. It became operational a year later (2019) after library space was allocated to the founding patron Mr. John Wesonga Mang’eni by Kariobangi Catholic Church. John himself a resident of Mathare Constituency, mobilized other community members for books and library furniture.
The Center is registered as a Community Based Organization under the Laws of Kenya and it is located in Mathare Constituency and currently has about 100 registered individual members and 4 affiliate members
Our Services
- Library services
- Education bursary support
- Career and business mentorship
- Arts and sports mentorship
- Social work support
- Computer classes
ACTIVITIES
The library accommodates students for free and provides them with space and academic resources which they use for their research and studies.
In the morning the students normally do their personal reading up to noon.
In the afternoon, we have a volunteer instructor who guides and coaches the students every day from Monday to Friday as from 2pm-3pm.
As from September, we shall be having computer classes every day from Monday-Friday, from 3pm-5pm, and later on have life skills and indoor games from 5pm -6pm.
As time goes by and amidst the corona virus pandemic, the library’s attendance has gone up as many students have continued to join us.
We currently have 66 library members with at least 25 of them attending the library on a daily basis.
We have managed to do some renovations and expansions in order to increase space to accommodate more students, while following the one-meter rule measure of curbing the spread of corvid 19 in accordance with the measures and guidelines given by the Government of Kenya and the Ministry of Health.
Through the support of the library’s chairman Mr. John Wesonga, we offer career and business mentorship and support through the jijenge fund initiative.
The jijenge fund, which started in June 2020, is an initiative that lends loans to either start, run or expand a business to individuals and groups at 0% interest, and gives them a reasonable loan payment period, and later does a follow up with the borrower to ensure that they establish businesses as agreed.
Jijenge Fund initiative lends 5,000 to an individual and 10,000 to a group with the approval of a committee that ensures that the borrower meets the requirements.
It so far has 5 beneficiaries,4 individuals and 1 group and all the beneficiaries have set up businesses that are ongoing, with one of them successfully paying the loan and the others having paid partly and continuing with payment as agreed.
We started offering computer classes on 1st September, which will be taking place from Monday-Friday at 3pm-5pm, with the pioneering class of 10 students that registered with 500 shillings each, and will be certified at the end of the course.
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