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Libraries Without Borders US (LWB US), the American branch of the international nonprofit Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (BSF), is the only organization that combines expert library support services with boots-on-the-ground community implementation—ensuring that economically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities gain equitable access to literacy, learning, and cultural connections.
Community Programs: We work directly with excluded communities to remove barriers to access, create culturally relevant programming, and support literacy, learning, and cultural preservation.
Institutional Partnerships: We equip libraries with the expert consulting, training, and implementation support they need to reach excluded populations, filling capacity gaps and delivering measurable results.
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SOTENI International, a 501(c)3 organization based in Cincinnati, has worked for 22 years to break the cycle of poverty and disease in rural Kenya, Eswatini, and around the world. Begun in 2003 to prevent and mitigate the effects of HIV/AIDS, SOTENI has evolved to provide education, clean water, and livelihoods, as well as health care, to the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters. SOTENI has operated a 24/7 health center for 20 years, and supported 3,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS through 169 support groups for 16 years.
Programs are led by the communities themselves, preserving SOTENI’s guiding principles of Sustainability, Opportunity, Training, Epidemiology, Networking, and Interdependence. As the organization continues to grow, SOTENI seeks to augment its paid staff (1 USA-based; 40 Kenya-based) with volunteer strategists, financial experts, epidemiologists, Board members, and others to support its mission. All interested individuals are encouraged to contact Dr. Victoria Wells Wulsin (AB ’75, MPH ’82, DrPH ’85) at vwulsin@gmail.com. SISI SOTENI PAMOJA (Swahili) = We are all together!
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