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It's about more than books ... |
It's about enriching the lives of deserving children
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This is the joy we are able to bring to eager, young readers. For the first time, they have books that can inspire and instruct. Children's books can engage them and help develop a reading culture that will last a lifetime.
This is the result we seek. Books REALLY ARE building bridges to brighter futures.
Share the work and joy of bringing a modern library to these deserving children.
Click the Read More button below to see how volunteers made it happen for 4 schools this past summer. |
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Thankful for past support and looking to the future |
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2005
800 students served |
2006
3,000 students reached |
2007
4,600 students enriched |
2008
6,800 students waiting | Libraries of Love is an all-volunteer organization that relies on the community to help create libraries in Ugandan schools. The school community, parents, civic groups, churches, book publishers, library supply companies and our friends at Dell have stepped up each year as our mission has grown. We know they will again this year. And, we are thankful for each one of you! |
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Dell volunteers - Spring 2008 |
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From Dell Logistics are bottom row, left to right, Sondra Johnson, Zach Broz, Ray Mireles. Top, left to right, are Kevin Stearns, Mike Lefkowitz, Darren Melnar, Dennis Langlands.
From Executive Director Trudy Marshall: "Zach, thanks again for bringing your group to help. It was nice to walk in this morning and see finished boxes!"
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Read-A-Thon raises $15,000 for Libraries of Love |
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“Enough can't be said about the wonderful caring hearts of those in the
Laurel
Mountain
community,” Libraries of Love Executive Director Trudy Marshall said. “The parents are amazing examples for their children, continually demonstrating the importance of providing for those less fortunate.”
Laurel
Mountain
students read a total of 1,415 hours! Funding donated to Libraries of Love totaled $15,008.60, and 100% of the funding goes directly to providing libraries for public schools in
Uganda
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2008 project books begin trip to Uganda |
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Scott and Tracy Porter hand boxes from storage to Paul Ortega, who stacks them on a truck for transfer to a warehouse for loading into a container for the trip to Uganda.
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Noe Diaz shrink wraps one of many pallets of books for loading into the shipment container. In all, 450 boxes began the trip on Feb. 5.
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Schools selected for 2008 Projects |
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Libraries of Love has named the two schools that will receive libraries in June 2008. Both are in Mbale, Uganda. After initially considering needs in Maasai land in Kenya, the Board has decided our best service can be to continue our efforts in Uganda for now. The Mbale schools we've chosen have a combined enrollment of about 6,800.
North Road Primary School has 3,600 students. The headmaster was previously the principal of Namatala Primary, Library of Love's 2006 project school. |
North Road Primary and Mbale Secondary will receive the 7th and 8th Libraries of Love.
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Mbale
Secondary School
backs up to Namatala Primary and is where most of the students go after completing primary. This makes it a perfect candidate, as we want the students to have reading materials throughout their school years. It has a student population of 3,200.
We are confident volunteers will step up to the challenge of collecting and preparing the thousands of books needed. |
 
Empty shelves at Mbale Secondary School will be a thing of the past after June 2008.
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 Aug. 6, 2007
Our thanks to reporter Jim Swift at KXAN TV in Austin, who did an interview with our executive director, Trudy Marshall, catching viewers up on how Libraries of Love has grown since he first interviewed her two years ago.
Click here to watch the interview. |
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