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Reading relief for Darfur refugees and villagers in Eastern Chad
February 5, 2008 - 10:21 PM
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I recently started a nonprofit, Book Wish Foundation, to provide reading relief to people in crisis around the world. Our first project focuses on three Darfur refugee camps in Eastern Chad (more than 60,000 residents, 20,000 of them students) and 18 nearby villages (with more than 19,000 people enrolled in literacy, primary school, or pre-school programs). We have requests from our on-the-ground partner for: library construction, reading glasses, English language course material, secondary school textbooks, dictionaries (Arabic-English and Arabic-French), solar-powered CD players (to play the audio component of the English language course), and school supplies. Each of these is described in detail on the site, in the Chad Wish List.
We just opened our website bookwish.org to the public yesterday, and are asking for your help to spread the word about our mission and this project. You can help us help the refugees and villagers, even without donating (donations would be very welcome, of course!). Please tell every book lover, Darfur activist, and teacher you know about us. You can use the Tell A Friend feature on our site, or forward descriptions of the project or individual items on the Chad Wish List with the "Email this page" link at the bottom of each description. If you use social bookmarking sites, please bookmark us! As the primary beneficiaries of this project will be students, we hope the youth community will support us.
If you want to see what education is like in the refugee camps, please visit our Gallery, which contains some amazing recent photos from Bredjing, Treguine, and Gaga camps. The refugees have demonstrated an incredibly strong desire to learn.
You can also share your thoughts or videos about related themes in the Share section of the site: "What reading means to me," "How learning Eglish changed my life," and "The ideal library for a community in crisis." We really want to hear from you here and through comments on the different Wish List items, photos, etc.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks very much for your help.
Logan Kleinwaks
Book Wish Foundation
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