Book drive for Ethiopian kids
July 22nd, 2006Wichita Eagle | 07/17/2006 | Kansans give Ethiopia 25,000 books
Children in Ethiopia have little access to books outside the classroom, where there might be only one book for every 100 students.
The books collected by the drive will go to the Ethiopian Books for Children and Educational Foundation, a nonprofit organization trying to change that.
In 2003, the group established the Shola Children’s Library, the first free children’s library in Ethiopia. It was a huge success, attracting 40,000 visits in its first year.
The Kansas book drive launched when Clark met Jane Kurtz, a local children’s author raised in Ethiopia and the foundation’s co-founder. The foundation wanted to expand and Clark, then the president of the Kansas Reading Association, was looking for an international project.
So, were these books in English?
I presume so.
That’s great, but it’s also kinda… odd, innit?