This group as originally constituted is on hiatus. Work is ongoing at Taking It Global Uganda Space.

The potential to use social media for the creation and dissemination of educational materials is great and the need for educational materials is too. Discussions about producing and making educational materials for Uganda is encouraged.

Below is the statement of the Uganda Space founder about the group for context:

The BOOK PROJECT FOR POOR STUDENTS IN UGANDA 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 to reduce illiteracy and poverty in Uganda through education and training.

Currently we are located within 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 kasinja Tonny Henry and six other friends from Makerere University: Wangi Godfrey, Nalubega Teddy, Ayaa Filda, Matovu David, Lukyamuzi Mohammed and Kagwa Shaphan in March 2007.

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 adults.

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 successful one as it will reduce to the illiteracy level and poverty in the country.