Aspen K-Kids Make Library Of Over 1,000 Books For Uganda

Submitted by Carol A. Clark
on November 7, 2025
- 6:27 am

Aspen’s K-Kids Club packs boxes of books to send to Uganda. Courtesy photo

Courtesy photo

By SHARON ALLEN
Los Alamos

The amazing K-Kids Club at Aspen School just completed collecting, packing, and shipping of 20 boxes of over 1000 books to make a library for Innovation Primary Community Library in Uganda, Africa.

Thanks to their hard work, an entire community will have access to books where there were none before!

Fundraising for this project started last year by selling See’s lollipops and having a bake sale, and this year the kids added to their funds by selling popcorn. Club treasurer, Abby (who has been helping her “Grandma Sharon” with the African Library Project since the age of 2!), completed the final details of the shipment by paying in cash with club funds at the LA post office on Oct. 29.

Aspen’s K-Kids Club, whose motto is to “make the world a better place in which to live”, is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos, supported by Kiwanian Don Casperson, and advised by Aspen staff member, Rachel Bartram. The entire community’s support of this project is to be commended and celebrated!

Kids labeled boxes during the packing process. Courtesy photo