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BOOKS WITHOUT BORDERS
"This year's One week, One Book campaign
will run 1st - 5th December 2003"
Simply spend this one week looking for one book you'd like to contribute for a shipment from New Zealand to Africa.
It needs to be inscribed. Then get the book through to Kuehne and Nagel, 30 Aintree Ave, Mangere, Auckland before the end of January, or contact us so our volunteers can hunt down free passage for your gift.
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If schools can act as a local collection depot, if nothing else, then that is wonderful because it becomes really complex to arrange transport for individual books and boxes scattered through the country.
If schools are culling their library and resource room/s then consider contributing these books.
We've had some criticism from Literacy Experts in developed nations, while the Reading Association of Nigeria says, send everything you can, "We want a flood of books into Africa". RAN is delighted that they will be able to offer their members the luxury of choosing what books from the 29 000 kg container-full will most appropriate for their children!
The Curriculum in Action: Joanne Sussex provides news from Auckland Normal Intermediate School where her class is managing logistics and communications for a school-wide project:
"Just to update you on our progress. A wide range of books is arriving steadily, and we have developed a system for noting messages and for packing. We have offered no prizes for 'best class' and I am encouraged by the fact that the students are giving without the incentive of recieving 'material gain', just giving for the pleasure of doing something positive for someone else. My own students are learning so much from this experience, I just wish we could have started earlier in the year as I would have integrated it into everything!
Comments from room six students:
"we are amazed at how many books we have collected already" Mark B
"we are so lucky to have an endless supply of resources to work from" Bayley O
" we never knew that there are children who dont have the things that we have at school" Robert U
"it sure is better to give than to recieve, (sometimes!)" Jeet C
" We have learnt a bit about what it might be like to walk in someone elses shoes, and it isn't always better" Shyam P
"Now everytime I read a book, I think about how not everybody can do that" Nick C
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