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From: Grace A. Balwit <gbalwit>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:15:41 -0700
Hello, If the books do not find a home here in the US... please consider sending them to Namibia, Africa. I volunteered in Okahandja, Namibia for a semester (2003), working with teachers there to set up a school library. Many rooms do not have a single book in them. The children learn to read from the "blackboard" and their handmade notebooks. English is the national language and the language of instruction. When we ( the IDEA foundation) set up libraries with donated books, (and actually built a wing on one school for the reading room)we then conducted after school reading programs. The response was enormous. The program continues today with volunteer teacher assistance. If anyone is interested in donating books I can give you a mailing address. The Foundation will forward the necessary money for duty to the recipient. I have attached pictures of enthusiastic children waiting in the shade of an acacia tree in 104 degree heat to have the chance to touch a book and hear a story read to them. Storytime was followed by individual reading time. Unfortunately, the children could not check out the books; there were not enough to go around.
Now that I am fully retired husband and I are working on our next grant to return. He did community development (started a small business that flourishes still) and we want to do more of the same: start libraries, and start small businesses. The businesses provide employment for about 7-15 people each, paying a living wage and providing profits that fund a program for children who have cerebral palsy and/or other disabilities. There are no programs for such children in the public schools. If anyone would like to assist in any way, please contact me. gbalwit at viclink.com
Grace Balwit, Ph. D. 14900 Hidden Hills Rd. McMinnville, OR 97128
Link to some of our work http://www.trost.canby.k12.or.us/troststaff/yocumk/namibia/ANECE.html
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Received on Thu 04 May 2006 01:15:41 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:15:41 -0700
Hello, If the books do not find a home here in the US... please consider sending them to Namibia, Africa. I volunteered in Okahandja, Namibia for a semester (2003), working with teachers there to set up a school library. Many rooms do not have a single book in them. The children learn to read from the "blackboard" and their handmade notebooks. English is the national language and the language of instruction. When we ( the IDEA foundation) set up libraries with donated books, (and actually built a wing on one school for the reading room)we then conducted after school reading programs. The response was enormous. The program continues today with volunteer teacher assistance. If anyone is interested in donating books I can give you a mailing address. The Foundation will forward the necessary money for duty to the recipient. I have attached pictures of enthusiastic children waiting in the shade of an acacia tree in 104 degree heat to have the chance to touch a book and hear a story read to them. Storytime was followed by individual reading time. Unfortunately, the children could not check out the books; there were not enough to go around.
Now that I am fully retired husband and I are working on our next grant to return. He did community development (started a small business that flourishes still) and we want to do more of the same: start libraries, and start small businesses. The businesses provide employment for about 7-15 people each, paying a living wage and providing profits that fund a program for children who have cerebral palsy and/or other disabilities. There are no programs for such children in the public schools. If anyone would like to assist in any way, please contact me. gbalwit at viclink.com
Grace Balwit, Ph. D. 14900 Hidden Hills Rd. McMinnville, OR 97128
Link to some of our work http://www.trost.canby.k12.or.us/troststaff/yocumk/namibia/ANECE.html
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