JENTA READS FOREWARD

Jenta, a location found in the central city of Jos. A community that has been sidelined on many grounds. There are mostly two kinds of response one receives from people when the community is mentioned, either the respondent does not know Jenta at all or the respondent know Jenta to be a very bad place. It has come to be synonymous to thuggery, crime, smoking, gangsterism, etc.

Many factors have contributed to this bad image, however, that is not our concern. There comes a time when a community decides to take charge of its destiny, a time when every patriotic citizen is called to champion a movement that eventually becomes a revolution. At such times, the issue of pointing fingers and calling for blames does not help to advance such causes.

We cannot shy away from the fact that our community is in need of electricity, water, road, and security but we believe that our most important need is EDUCATION. With good education, all these other needs can be met with easily. An educated society produces good leadership, which in turns produces most if not all of the above mentioned issues.

Education transform a community. We believe that it will transform ours. Educating the citizens is the collective responsibility of every educated person. In line with our many plans of working towards the betterment of our society, the idea of a library became more important than any other plan. Schools should be serving the function we are intending to execute but due to the complexities and lack of support, many of such ideas have fallen to the ground. More so, a school library will be limited to the student of the school only. Limiting the scope of the library to the student will only be a continuation of the current quagmire that is restricting our development, advancement and transformation.

Therefore, our plan is to reach the entire community; the old, the young and the children. We do not intend to have any leg left behind.

The library, we intend, would contain varieties of books including primary school text books, secondary school text books, engineering books, medical books, hand-work books, fictional books, motivational books, art books, historical books, agricultural books, inspirational books, religious books, short stories, . Considering the size and caliber of our intended target, this will serve for the start of the project. As time goes on, our range of materials will surely increase.

The location for the library will for the meantime will be located at No. 107, Jenta Mangoro, until a permanent building is erected.

Library users will be registered, and an agreement signed by the registered users. Borrowing of books will be manual. Only registered members will be allowed to borrow books. Registration will be absolutely free.

The span of time for borrowed books is no much long than 2 weeks.

The challenge for such a project is always enormous. For the time being, we have limited it to just one-Getting the books. Creating an awareness that leads to donation for such a project is demanding, but that is the only path we can take. We are incapacitated to achieve this entire project on our own. However, we have tried hard not to request for much. Our request is for donation of books.

Books are all we ask for. The best support we can receive is the donation of materials that would lead to the ultimate build of this library, a library we intend would become a theatre of dreams, a resource centre for researchers, a nurturing center for great men and women, and also as a start of many plans that would eventually transform Jenta."

Also we are in need of library essentials, such as tables, shelves, cabins, chairs, etc.