After three years of planning, fundraising, and international collaboration, the Rotary Club of Suna Migori, Kenya, has celebrated the opening of a public library at the Msomi buildings in Migori town, stocked with more than 40,000 donated books valued at 52 million Kenyan shillings! As Redondo Beach Rotarian Peter Lattey poignantly observed, “The people of Suna Migori did not know what a library was, because they had never seen one.”

That has now changed in a spectacular way! Peter, an architect and humanitarian who has worked alongside the Suna Migori Rotary team for 13 years, helped bring this ambitious project to life. Working with Rotary International, ten Rotary clubs primarily in the United States and Canada, and Books to the World, a Rotary organization based in Texas, the team secured the resources and books needed to turn a long-held dream into reality.