Kasinja, welcome! Before diving in, you might want to check out the "Life in Africa" (http://www.ned.com/group/lia-usa /news/) group, as they are based in Uganda and may have some ideas for you.

From your introduction can you share a little more about:

• How many people are a part of your effort?
• What are some of the books that you have produced in the past?
• What kind of books would you like to produce in this effort?
• How do you think those of us outside of Uganda can assist you?

Thank you!

About the book publishing idea, it is a charity project aimed at helping poor students in Uganda who can not buy expensive text books and reading materials. We are also working around to reduce illetracy and poverty levels in Uganda through educating and training the future generation. Currently we are located with in Makerere University, faculty of Agriculture but this year we are to graduate and hope to rent some place in Kampala. The project was founded by me and 6 other friends from makerere university i.e Wangi Godfrey, Nalubega Teddy, Ayaa Filda, Matovu David, Lukyamuzi Mohammed and Kagwa Shaphan. We started with the science subjects like biology, physics and mathematics because the reading materials are scarce. We would like to produce all educational books from primary , secondary up to university level taking into consideration reading materials for Udults.When we write the manuscripts, we hand them to the publishing company to be published at low prices. This has helped many poor students but we are limited with the computers, printers, and related stationery. We also go to schools which lack science teachers and we volunteer to help these students to learn. We not yet registered with the country registrar. We would love to expand the project to cover the whole country and to start publishing by our selves with time but funds will give us what to do.We also have an idea of starting to build schools for poor children in the future. So that is where we are now, and we invite any one out there to be part of us by giving us advice, donation of any materials necessary and any information to make this project a sucessful one as it will reduce to the illiteracy level and poverty in the country. Thankks

Looks like the conversation is happening here: http://www.ned.com/group/lia-usa /news/11/

Thank you!

Hi Kasinja,

You can now "Publish" things for free online. Check out

http://www.scribd.com

If you have a computer, printer, ink and paper you could get publishers to allow you to scan or insert material online and print out books and daily material from online. Overtime you could have an entire library of material available to you to freely printout.