$5000 SHIPPING COSTS FOR THIS YEAR'S CAMPAIGN:
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Click here to learn why you and Books Without Borders should send books to Nigeria and the Pacific Islands.
Click here to visit our
SCHOOL PROJECTS pages!
Click here to read our BACKGROUND INFORMATION!
Fiona Lovatt Davis
Educator
"My
immediate purpose is to mobilise the children of New Zealand to
make the gift of a book from their own homes, from their own hands
..."
Thanks to Owens
for transport Wellington-Auckland!
Also to Daily Freight
for Gisborne-Auckland, Save the Children Stores nationwide, Tom Lumb and Karori Lions Club,
and the thousands of others who have lent a hand.
Click here to visit the archived 2002 Books Without Borders website.
Click here to visit the archived 2001 Books Without Borders website.
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BOOKS WITHOUT BORDERS 2004:
New Pacific Project
Calling all all cruisers: Collect a carton of books from Opua on your way to the Pacific Islands this season! Give them to teachers, students,
children , island libraries... anyone you meet who needs them! Contact: "Opua Sports" on VHF16
For Sindrella on Santo, Vanuatu -
• Materials to establish a school for primary students... delivery courtesy of Don Cameron of Schooner "Scotsman"
Throughout the Pacific -
• Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Biology textbooks - delivery courtesy of Lorne and Harold of MV "Askiva"
• Assorted children's books - deliveries courtesy of the Island Cruising Association's Tonga and Fiji regattas, SV "Avventura",
"Poet's Place", and "Wayfarer"
For Fiji -
Wall charts and maps - can you help?
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Contact Fiona if you have books you can spare to share.
Visit your local Kiwibank to make a donation to cover shipping expenses.
Contact us if you think you can lend a container,
or provide a depot/ warehouse where people can send books,
or have a group/organisation/class who would like to adopt this project for a year or a term!
Simply look for one book you'd like to contribute for a shipment from New Zealand to Africa.
It needs to be inscribed. Then contact us so our volunteers can hunt down free passage for your gift.
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We make
a living by what we get;
we make a life by what we give.
2001:
The nationwide "Books Without
Borders" 2001 challenge was a tremendous success, and schools across the
country - from the biggest to the tiniest and most far flung - helped to
collect childrens' books to fill a forty foot container donated by Kuehne
and Nagel, logistics experts who responded to a simple request made by
e-mail.
Volunteers from around the country turned out with utes,
light aircraft, vans, cars and trucks to move the books towards Auckland
where Kuehne and Nagel had warehouse space set aside for our use. It was an
incredibly hectic period leading up to Christmas and the season of "peace on
earth and goodwill" was expressed many times in the actions of all those who
took part in the initial campaign.
2002:
In 2002 several classes in primary and secondary schools had grabbed hold of the project with both hands and Fiona was able to visit them and personally collect their contributions, joining in special assemblies and thanking the children for their social action. The record collection stands at 65 boxes!
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"I once taught a young boy in Nigeria the English alphabet and that led to his being able to read. It was like a blind man who suddenly opened his eyes to the sun."
Uduma Kalu
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