Building libraries! Currently, our main work involves building a modern, fully equipped community library in Busia, Kenya, which we hope will serve as a model library for similar initiatives in other parts of the country. Networking libraries! Libraries on their own are important and powerful sources of information. But together, they can do even more-they can share resources and ideas, and collaborate on a national scale. Promoting libraries and reading! Our work at local and national levels to promote libraries and reading in Kenya is based on two ideas. First, sustaining libraries in any country relies on philanthropic networks of "friends."