Mina Ogbanga , founder and executive chairman of The Center for developmen Suport Initiatives(CEDSI Nigeria), launched Library Port after a trek through the Niger Delta region of Nigeria where she visited several local schools in ursuit of development.  She was amazed by the warmth and enthusiasm of the students and teachers, but also saddened by the shocking lack of resources and total dearth in the reading culure which in no smal way made them all so vulnerable.

In founding Library Port, Mina wove long term development practices with his inspiring vision to provide educational access and opportunity to 10,000,000 children in the developing Nigeria. Her novel approach to non-profit management utilises strategies to ensure:

• Scalable, measured, sustainable results
• Low-overhead, allowing maximum investment in educational infrastructure
• Challenge grants fostering community ownership and sustainability
• Strong local staff and partnerships creating culturally relevant programs

Libraryport in view of it's launch in 2009,seeks to provide a holistic, multi-pronged approach to help children in Africa to gain the lifelong gift of education through seven core programs:

• LibraryPort Music Academy-an inegrated music academy for training,research and Production.
• Library Port Wrters club
• Library Port Drawing and Painting
• LibraryPort CISCO Networking Academy
• Reading Room — We establish libraries and stock them with local-language children’s books, original librarypor titles, donated English-language books, games and furniture to create a child-friendly learning environment.
• School Room — We partner with local communities to build schools so children can learn in a safe, child-friendly environment.
• Local Language Publishing — We source new content from local writers and illustrators and publish high-quality children's books in the local language to distribute throughout our networks.
• Girls for the future Education — We provide long-term, holistic support enabling girls to pursue and complete their secondary education.
• LibraryPort learning center
• LibraryPort Bookshop

To increase the likelihood for success and long-term sustainability,LibraryPor always enlists community involvement and co-investment through our Challenge Grant/in-kind model. Villages often raise a significant portion of the overall expenditure in the form of dedicated space, labor, materials and/or small amounts of cash. These challenge grants act as catalysts for community building while also maximizing the local participation and expertise brought to our programs.

We hire local staff, who are personally vested in their nation's educational progress and we empower them to make key programmatic decisions within their country. They are already familiar with the language, conditions, customs and governments and understand the specific needs of the educational system.

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LibraryPort looks forward to impacting the lives of it's target goup and enhance literacy one child a a time..

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To respond to the worldwide demand for our programs, Room to Read is committed to expanding within comunities in Africa, as well as to other developing countries. regiserig our presece as well as conducting in-depth research one or two African Countries with a goal to launch Libraries n various parts of Africa