Our story

Hi! I’m Caroline, and in 2017 I moved to Kampala where I met Bridget. We worked together at an East African microfinance and were grateful for the opportunity to improve the lives of the communities around us. However one day over lunch, Bridget let slipped she dreamed of opening a library.

I’d always had the same dream. Months after that initial comment I reached out and we took the leap. We made plans to open our first school library.

We grew up on different sides of the world with the same love of stories. We came from families and schools with access to books and both feel incredibly grateful we were given the opportunity to fall in love with reading. 

The research shows how life changing reading can be. It isn’t only a pleasure and it certainly shouldn’t be exclusionary based on your geography. That’s why we’re so passionate about getting children access to books so they can #readitpossible.

Thank you for joining us on our mission to get children reading and dreaming. We couldn’t do it with you.

Bridget’s favourite childhood book: ‘Cinderella’ 

Caroline’s favourite childhood book: ‘Ruff’ by Jane Hissey. (My Dad gave each animal the best voices)