All Library Stories
The Nyali Community Library Becomes a Hub for Local Children During School Break
June 23, 2023
In this fast-paced digital age, where the internet marks a great percentage of our interactions, children are often left to watch television and hardly get time to interact outside school. In such a time, there is something remarkably enriching about a visit to a community library, more specifically in this case, the Hatua Nyali Community […]
June 24, 2021
Hatua began its Fortified Uji Project in 2020 right before the pandemic forced schools to shut down. No students meant no uji (porridge); and the project, like so many others, went on a hiatus. When schools opened in January, Evans Omondi, Hatua’s Library Coordinator, spent more than a few sleepless nights working to get […]
October 19, 2020
Following the closure of all learning institutions in March this year, our network of libraries was affected and followed suit. Interestingly, our library department made the decision to go mobile to continue serving children and youth in Mombasa during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main focus areas for this program was to provide books to our […]
Hatua Re-opens Likoni Community Library at Ushindi Baptist
November 21, 2019
Hatua Network on the 16th of November held its 13th Annual General Meeting at the Ushindi Baptist in Likoni, marking 13 amazing years of offering scholarships, mentoring, career guidance and professional networks links to academically promising and high need students in Mombasa, Kenya. We kicked off the day with the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Ushindi Baptist […]
Library assistants break own record!
August 13, 2019
Each year the community in Likoni get to benefit from voluntary services from our exceptionally excelling gap year students as they wait to join the university. The team of gap year students volunteering in our library, commit their time not only to serve the students but also help them whenever they’re stuck! Students especially […]
June 13, 2019
This past week at Hatua Network we were happy to host one of our biggest donors to our community libraries in Likoni and Mvita. The American Friends of Kenya are one of the donors that have seen Hatua grow over the years. After 13 years of offering library services to our community in Likoni Hatua […]
Good News From Hatua Likoni Library
June 7, 2018
Some good news for you! Hatua Likoni Library is on the innovation path as we endeavor to improve our services for better user satisfaction. For the last 6 years since inauguration, we have consistently strived to ensure a dazzling user experience. Our Library is open 7 days a week to cater for the diversity and […]
May 29, 2017
As expected, the April 2017 was quite a very busy period for the library staff due to students being holiday. We had a tremendous upsurge of user activities which was great! The number of patrons who visited us during the month of April stands at 9417 which is more than twice of our typical monthly […]
Updates From Hatua Likoni Library
September 3, 2013
Hatua Likoni takes this opportunity to thank all those that have contributed to making Hatua library a conducive environment to the community. Just recently we received over 1400 English fiction and reference books from American friend s of Kenya. We are now processing them for shelving. During August holiday, library users were 8035. This high […]
Likoni Empowerment Library Shows Educational Documentaries to Children
May 7, 2013
Likoni Empowerment Library shows educational documentaries to children every other Friday. This is a new project started by Evans Omondi, our Resource Coordinator. The aim of this project is to encourage a culture of reading for our students and the Likoni community at large. This documentaries are educational in nature, and always have a lesson […]