Now Africa Initiative (NAI) is an inspiring group of small-scale coffee farmers who are collectively registered as a social enterprise. Their mission is to contribute to the socio-economic transformation of rural Uganda through agricultural development and educational improvements. In 2016, with financial support from The Chain Collaborative, NAI organized into six working groups to build the Karama Education Center (KEC), which serves as both a primary school for children and a learning center for adults. While equipped with a nursery school addition, eight classroom blocks, and improved pit latrines, KEC does not have a functioning library to inspire students and support the community.

In 2018, with help from WaterBridge Outreach and its Writers for WaterBridge Outreach, NAI was able to purchase books and build furnishings to begin stocking the long-anticipated Now Africa Library at KEC. The library, housed in one of the classroom blocks, serves to enrich the primary school curricula with additional literacy activities that will encourage a love of reading among children, open their hearts and minds to new worlds, and help them to live their school motto: Turning Our Dreams into Reality. The library also creates a community hub where whole families can engage with library materials to further their learning and literacy potential. 

The beneficiaries of the Now Africa Library project include the 200 primary-aged students (Forms 1 to 6) and six teachers of KEC, as well as the over 250 members of NAI, who are able to freely utilize the school building and the school library. Each year, the school adds a new grade onto the school, so this number will only continue to grow in the years to come.