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Thankful for past support and looking to the future |
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2005
800 students served
2009
4,500 students helped |
2006
3,000 students reached
2010
5,000 students touched |
2007
4,600 students enriched
Libraries of Love has created libraries for 19 schools serving about 25,000 students. We are an all-volunteer organization that relies on the community to help create libraries in Ugandan schools. |
2008
7,100 students benefit
The Round Rock ISD 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. | |
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Parent volunteers prepare books |
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Song Jin and Tracy Porter, left photo, and Junko Takeuchi, right, get started on books for 2011 projects. All are mothers of Laurel Mountain Elementary students and frequently volunteer to prepare books for checkout.
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  Those who have been to Uganda love Mercy, our Ugandan pastor's daughter. Last year, we met and fell in love with another Mercy. This beautiful Mercy was a newborn at a rural clinic. The mother had died. She was alone. Melissa Busby, Trudy's nephew's wife, who has made three trips to Uganda with Libraries of Love, felt a tug at her heart. After returning and much prayer, she and her husband, Cody (pastors of First Baptist Church in Mulvane, Kansas) knew they wanted to adopt Mercy. They are now in the process. To raise funding for the adoption, which will be around $15,000, they are selling 'Mercy' t-shirts. If you would like a t-shirt, please contact Melissa at: melissabusby@hotmail.com. The shirts are $17, which includes mailing.
If you would like to donate to help with the adoption process, please feel free to do that, as well. Cody and Melissa's blog about Mercy can be found at: roadtomercy.blogspot.com
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Thanks to Texas Mutual volunteers |
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Thanks to the team from Texas Mutual Insurance that visited on December 3. The team completed 10 boxes containing 550 books for the 2010 libraries.
Pictured, front row left to right, are Shila Desai, Gregg Cochran and Gregory Vera. Back row, David Ellis, Derek Ellsworth, Brett Weaver and Hilario Figueroa. | |
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Thanks to the team of 6 volunteers who helped sort books at our storage unit on Sunday, Sept. 27. You guys were a tremendous help! You managed to get 26 boxes of books sorted before we ran out of supplies. Thanks to Kevin Vo, Frances Chen, Arlena Wu, Geethika Vemulapalli, Aneesha Kommineni, Naoko Takeuchi ... and of course ... Junko Takeuchi! |
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